elegy

Eliot Prize-winning collection of narrative poetry “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”; her haunting accordion-fold elegy, “Nox”; and her widely praised translation of Sappho’s surviving fragments, “If Not, Winter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Leading an orchestra of 22, featuring lively colorations from saxophone, harp, marimba and guitar, conductor Michael Sakir captured the music’s landscape of alternating pulse and elegy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

I have gone back and forth, and I have landed on this: It is an elegy.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Citra realized there was no good day to be presented to an intimidating elegy of scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

But amid the elegies written about American capitalism, the latest mini-IPO boom is a welcome tribute to the dynamism of U.S. markets that no other country can match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Those, for example, by Lorenzo de' Medici bear the same relation to his Canti Carnascialeschi as Pontano's odes to the Saints bear to his elegies and Baian lyrics.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds