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Maybe not. Listening to the History of England podcast, was pointed to the poem "Pearl" https://interestingliterature.com/2016/02/03/a-short-summary-of-the-med
by erehweb 10y ago
Maybe not. Listening to the History of England podcast, was pointed to the poem "Pearl" https://interestingliterature.com/2016/02/03/a-short-summary-of-the-medieval-poem-pearl/ https://interestingliterature.com/2016/02/03/a-short-summary... and http://www.billstanton.co.uk/pearl/pearl_new.htm http://www.billstanton.co.uk/pearl/pearl_new.htm which includes a father's grieving for his lost two year old daughter. So some evidence that these losses were keenly felt.
- i000 10y agoAnother example are Laments by a great Polish 16th century poet (Kochanowski). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laments_(Kochanowski) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laments_(Kochanowski)
- nsrango 10y agoAlso from the American tradition I wish my baby was born. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpU3zslpHw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpU3zslpHw
- jbarham 10y agoAnother famous example is Wordsworth's "Suprised by joy - impatient as the wind", c. 1800. See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/22/poem.of.the.week.wordsworth https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/22/poem... for the poem and exposition.