Syllabus
1. William and Dorothy Wordsworth
2. John Clare, tree elegies; Percy Shelley, Adonaïs (1821)
3. Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850)
4. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire' (1867-68); Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1865)
5. W. S. Graham, elegies; Elizabeth Jennings, elegies
6. Douglas Dunn, Elegies (1985); Paul Monette, Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog (1988); Deryn Rees-Jones, Burying the Wren (2012)
7. Alice Oswald, Memorial (2011);
8. Anne Carson, Nox (2009); Susan Howe, That This (2010)
9. Peter Larkin: religion, land, elegy
10. Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary (2010)