threnody

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Of course, “the unspeakable horror of the literary life” — to borrow Mr. Earbrass’s phrase from Edward Gorey’s “The Unstrung Harp” — is a familiar threnody in the writing biz.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2022

The threnody, in particular, is a much-studied example of startling emotional effects created from abstract concepts.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2020

A threnody for strings, rich in aching suspensions, appears twice, first to lament the deaths of millions and later to mark a more personal loss.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2016

But this grim vista is redeemed by the expansiveness of O'Rowe's supernatural vision, and by his beat-poetic script, a drummed threnody to the beautiful and the damned.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2011

Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer