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For 145 years
* Filled with lovely illustrations by Alice Pattullo
as hearty and explicit as good Calvados' The New York Times Book ReviewWith an introduction by James Salter
He soon became her perfect friend and they did everything together
The Penguin book of elegy Historical mysteries For 145 yearsElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art's fundamental 'impulse to preserve' (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in
