Crossword-Solution: EPICEDES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Arnold was a frequent and a skilled attempter of epicedes) on Wordsworth, on Heine, and on the dog _Geist_; with, almost latest of all and not least noble, "Westminster Abbey," the opening passages of which vie in metre (though of a more complicated mould) and in majesty with Milton's "Nativity Ode," and show a wonderful ability to bear this heavy burden of comparison.

Donne's 'wit' has many strands, his humour many moods, and before considering how these are woven together into an effect that is entirely poetical, we may note one or two of the soberer strands which run through his _Letters_, _Epicedes_, and similar poems--descriptive, reflective, and complimentary.

This is very obvious in the _Epicedes_--his complimentary laments for the young Lord Harington, Miss Boulstred, Lady Markham, Elizabeth Drury and the Marquis of Hamilton, poems in which it is difficult to find a line that moves.

Even the _Second Anniversary_, the greatest of Donne's epicedes, is marred throughout by these faults.

Funerall Elegies, (including _An Anatomie of the World_ with _A Funerall Elegie_, _Of the Progresse of the Soule_, and _Epicedes and Obsequies upon the deaths of sundry Personages_.) (Letters in Prose).[8] The Progresse of the Soule.