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

On one level it is a dryly detailed and topographically exact portrait of a small town in the American midwest, but on another it is a devastating threnody for lost love.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2019

It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

Eliot and describes this theme as "the larger threnody lamenting the death of criticism."

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2010

Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison