Thyrsis
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Thyrsis is an elegiac pastoral poem by Matthew Arnold that mourns the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hugh Clough.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thyrsis canonical | 2 |
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| alludesTo | The Scholar-Gipsy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Matthew Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemorates | Arthur Hugh Clough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1866 ⓘ |
| genre |
elegy
ⓘ
pastoral poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Corydon (shepherd figure)
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ⓘ
Thyrsis (shepherd figure) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Thyrsis: A Monody to Commemorate the Author of ‘The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich’ and ‘The Amours of the Poets’ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Theocritus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Victorian poetry criticism ⓘ |
| meter | varied stanzaic form ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Scholar-Gipsy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Hinksey near Oxford
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Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Oxford countryside
ⓘ
death of Arthur Hugh Clough ⓘ friendship ⓘ loss and mourning ⓘ |
| theme |
contrast between past and present
ⓘ
passing of youth ⓘ poetic vocation ⓘ search for an ideal ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.