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Unique in the annals of Johnsoniana is a full treatment of Dr. Robert Levet, an unlicensed practitioner who was a valued member of Johnson's peculiar household, and Wiltshire's close reading of Johnson's elegy on Levet is welcome and commendable.
It is important for the reader of the "Elegy on the Death of Sidney" to realize that Sidney--a brilliant writer, of extremely noble family, a statesman and soldier who died of war wounds at the age of 32--was looked on as a kind of perfect man: one born with the greatest advantages, who had the talent and goodness to make the best of them.
Elegy on the Death of Sidney
Thanks largely to the efforts of Vassar College's Donald Foster, who speculates about literary authorship using an electronic database of texts of early modern literature, the 585-line "Funeral Elegy," as it's come to be known, appears in the new Riverside and Norton Shakespeare editions, both released last month.
Alfred Lord Tennyson published "In Memoriam AHH," more than a hundred verses of elegy and sorrow for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.