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The poetry of praise /
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians and later by writers on poetry. J....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians and later by writers on poetry. J.A. Burrow's study spans over two thousand years, from Pindar to Christopher Logue, but its main concern is with the English poetry of the Middle Ages, a period when praise poetry flourished. He argues that the 'decline of praise' in English literature since the seventeenth century, which has meant that modern readers and critics find it hard to appreciate this kind of poetry. This erudite but accessible account by a leading scholar of medieval literature shows why the poetry of praise was once so popular, and why it is still worth reading today. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 196 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521886937 9780521886932 0511398042 9780511398049 9780511397271 0511397275 0511400853 9780511400858 9780511483257 0511483252 |