Both Uses of
elegy
in
Don Quixote
- Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies.†
Chpt 1.11-12 *
- I will buy some ewes and everything else requisite for the pastoral calling; and, I under the name of the shepherd Quixotize and thou as the shepherd Panzino, we will roam the woods and groves and meadows singing songs here, lamenting in elegies there, drinking of the crystal waters of the springs or limpid brooks or flowing rivers.†
Chpt 2.67-68
Definition:
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(elegy) a mournful poem -- especially lamenting for someone who died