1972, Twentieth Century: An Australian Quarterly Review XXVII, 273:
The famous speech is a threnedy for a lost world as well as for a lost love:[…]
1999, John R. Strachan (editor), Parodies of the Romantic Age, Pickering & Chatto, volume II: Collected Verse Parody, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), 386:
And proud to see my lofty love // So sweetly wince, so coyly shrink, // I woke a moving threnedy — // I sang the missing link.
1999, Mieczysława Demska-Trębaczowa (editor), Księga Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej Dzieło Chopina jako źródło inspiracji wykonawczych, Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina, 252:
The beginning of death was signalized with the coffin portraits of those to be buried, artifacts unknown beyond the circle of the culture of Polish nobility; it was captured by Jan Kochanowski in his movingly beautiful Threnedies, which rank among the masterpieces of European funeral poetry; it is death in La lugubre gondola of Liszt that sails toward its final destination; we encounter it in Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice, filmed by Luchino Visconti and the inspiration for Benjamin Britten’s opera.
