Wednesday, 7 March 2007 03:28 pm
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One of the references I've looked at for my essay on Aemilia Lanyer's 'The Description of Cooke-ham' suggests that is is using a classical genre, the 'farewell to a place'. This gives me no clue what the formal Latin term for such a genre might be, and I can't find it online. Anyone know?

(It's a poem looking back and bidding farewell to a place with nostalgia, if that helps.)

ETA Turns out that the first of Virgil's Eclogues may have been the intended reference, but that's not really useful - eclogues are mostly just pastoral, not specifically nostalgic, even though that one does have nostalgic hints. Never mind!
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