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[taimatsu]

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!

Comments

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Erm, valedictum or something?

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Valediction fits, but I wouldn't have thought it was specifically addressed to a place.

[taimatsu]

I've tried valediction :/ I will look it up again when I go home in my discionary of literary terms, but I think there might be something more specific.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I want to say panegyric, but that's neither Latin nor quite the right thing.

[taimatsu]

Indeed, but it's a useful vocabulary item to be reminded of anyway - thank you :)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Elegy?