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Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America. The genre consists largely of sentimental narrative verse that tells the story of the demise of its typically named subjects and seeks to console their mourners with descriptions of their happy afterlife. The genre achieved its peak of popularity in the decade of the 1870s. While usually full chiefly of conventional pious sentiments, the obituary poets in one sense continue the program of meditations on death begun by the eighteenth-century graveyard poets, such as Edward Young's Night T

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  • Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America. The genre consists largely of sentimental narrative verse that tells the story of the demise of its typically named subjects and seeks to console their mourners with descriptions of their happy afterlife. The genre achieved its peak of popularity in the decade of the 1870s. While usually full chiefly of conventional pious sentiments, the obituary poets in one sense continue the program of meditations on death begun by the eighteenth-century graveyard poets, such as Edward Young's Night Thoughts, and as such continue one of the themes that went into literary Romanticism. (en)
  • Een lijkdicht is een gedicht ter nagedachtenis van een overledene. Doordat het naar aanleiding van een sterfgeval ontstaat, is het per definitie een gelegenheidsgedicht. Het kan in opdracht geschreven zijn en is vaak een opsomming van de deugden en kwaliteiten van de overledene. Dit maakt zulke gelegenheidspoëzie niet zelden formeel en plichtmatig, en het lijkdicht wordt daarom wel onderscheiden van de elegie, die, in de betekenis van "klaagzang", doorgaans emotioneler van karakter is. Maar ook lijkdichten kunnen tot hoog literair niveau stijgen. Een voorbeeld is Kinder-lyck van Vondel, tegelijkertijd een klacht om zijn gestorven kind, "Constantijntje, 't zalig kijndtje", en een bespiegeling over de eeuwigheid en over Gods goedheid. (nl)
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  • Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America. The genre consists largely of sentimental narrative verse that tells the story of the demise of its typically named subjects and seeks to console their mourners with descriptions of their happy afterlife. The genre achieved its peak of popularity in the decade of the 1870s. While usually full chiefly of conventional pious sentiments, the obituary poets in one sense continue the program of meditations on death begun by the eighteenth-century graveyard poets, such as Edward Young's Night T (en)
  • Een lijkdicht is een gedicht ter nagedachtenis van een overledene. Doordat het naar aanleiding van een sterfgeval ontstaat, is het per definitie een gelegenheidsgedicht. Het kan in opdracht geschreven zijn en is vaak een opsomming van de deugden en kwaliteiten van de overledene. Dit maakt zulke gelegenheidspoëzie niet zelden formeel en plichtmatig, en het lijkdicht wordt daarom wel onderscheiden van de elegie, die, in de betekenis van "klaagzang", doorgaans emotioneler van karakter is. (nl)
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  • Obituary poetry (en)
  • Lijkdicht (nl)
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