The Elegy Project

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  • about the project
  • the poems
  • on the map
  • the annotations
  • reflections on the art of mourning
  • the curriculum
  • complicate your life
  • resources
  • contact
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the curriculum

The Elegy Project gathers and shares materials for teaching about elegy at all levels, across K-12 and post-secondary institutions. Many of our volunteers are teachers and know first-hand that poetry is a part of flourishing classrooms. To share pedagogical materials and ideas with us, please contact us here.

"modern elegy"

This syllabus is for an undergraduate seminar on 20th- and 21st-century literature in Western Washington University's English Department. Instriuctor: Stefania Heim.

"Ode and Elegy"

This lesson comes from "Poetry and the Art of Survival," a spring 2022 workshop series for incarcerated students in the Suffolk County House of Correction. Instructor: David Sherman.

"inventing Farewell: A Practicum on Elegy"

This syllabus is for an undergraduate and graduate student seminar in Brandeis University's English Department, from fall 2018. This is a project-based seminar on contemporary elegy. Instructor: David Sherman.

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