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• Mirroring the Future Adonais, Elegy, and the Life in Letters

  Author:MICHELE TURNER SHARPFrom:Criticism (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20008,367 words Critical essay IN ELEGY, A POETIC VOICE confronts the threat of its own dissolution, and works to forge an enduring, living form by which its author merits inclusion in a pantheon of the poets. Elegy is an inaugural genre, most...

• Elegy Unto Epitaph: Print Culture and Commemorative Practice in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

  Author:MICHELE TURNER SHARPFrom:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20028,953 words Critical essay From its inception in classical times, elegy has been a vehicle by which a poet negotiates his own poetic maturation and grapples with the risks and gains attendant upon the acquisition of public voice. In the elegies...

• If It Be a Monster Birth: Reading and Literary Property in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

  From: South Atlantic Review

  Fall 20019,253 words Critical essay [(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Sharp contends that the central concern of Frankenstein is how reading influences the novel's protagonists and shapes their creative work, and how reading impacts the...

• Elegy unto Epitaph: Print Culture and Commemorative Practice in Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.'

  From: Papers on Language & Literature

  Winter 20029,171 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Sharp maintains "that the generic deviations that the 'Elegy' makes from the tradition of pastoral elegy are intimately related to changes in the status of the writer and...

• "Elegy Unto Epitaph: Print Culture and Commemorative Practice in Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.'"

  From: Papers on Language and Literature

  Winter 20029,182 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Sharp asserts that Gray's "Elegy" deviates from the standard conventions of the elegiac poem in significant and ground-breaking ways. The critic suggests that these...