Editing Elegy (section)

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In French, perhaps the most famous elegy is [[Le Lac (poem)|''Le Lac'']] (1820) by [[Alphonse de Lamartine]].<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Elegy|author=Gosse, Edmund|authorlink=Edmund Gosse|volume=9|pages=252–253}}</ref>

In Germany, the most famous example is ''[[Duino Elegies]]'' by [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] (1922).

In the Islamic world—namely Shia Islam, the most famous examples are elegies written by [[Sachay Bhai]] on the [[Battle of Karbala]]. Elegies written on [[Husayn ibn Ali]] and his followers are very common and produced even today.

In Spain, one of the capital works in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] is [[Jorge Manrique#Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre|''Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre'']] (Stanzas About the Death of His Father), written between 1460 and 1470 by [[Jorge Manrique]].<ref name="Manrique's Coplas by Marino">{{cite book |last1=Marino |first1=Nancy F. |title=Jorge Manrique's Coplas por la muerte de su padre: A history of the poem and its reception |date=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NF5qKAbUaPkC |publisher=Támesis Monografías |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY |isbn=9781855662315 |pages=214 |access-date=13 February 2022 |language=English}}</ref>