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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : from Pindar to Pound
- The poetics of praise
- Old English, especially Beowulf
- Middle English
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- The decline of praise : two modern instances
- Praise and its purposes.