An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize (Annotated)

Sinopsis del libro

Oliver Goldsmith's "An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize" is a deliberately comic mock-elegy that adopts the solemn language of public mourning only to expose the instability of praise. Framed as a popular epitaph or village ballad, its regular rhymes, plain diction, and memorably proverbial cadence give…