Love and death is a common shared human experience that many poets of the ancient world explored in their various poetic works. The elegists Rome famously wrote love poems which each pined for specific mistress or lover, some these poems, were simultaneously prominent themes.
 In this article I examine relationship between concepts Propertius 4.7, Tibullus 1.3 Ovid’s Amores 3.9. From study...

When smallpox claimed the only son of the sixth Earl of Huntingdon on 24 June 1649, the death of Henry, Lord Hastings was commemorated in a fashionable volume of elegies. Among the contributions to Lachrymae musarum by "diverse persons of Nobility and Worth", Andrew Marvell's tribute to the young Huntingdon heir is certainly the most intriguing and those ofJohn Denham and Robert Herrick rank wi...

Abstract An extended period of public mourning followed the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, one South Korea’s largest maritime disasters which resulted in over three hundred passenger deaths. This article examines leading contemporary Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s narration collective trauma her elegy for dead, Chugŭmŭi chasajŏn (Autobiography Death, 2016). Drawing on oral tradition, particularly songs ...