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What is The Poetry of Praise about?
Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction: from Pindar to Pound 11 CHAPTER 1 The poetics of praise 16 CHAPTER 2 Old English, especially Beowulf 39 CHAPTER 3 Middle English 71 CHAPTER 4 Geoffrey Chaucer 111 CHAPTER 5 The decline of praise: two modern instances 160 panegyric: praise of kings 161 heroic: praise of warriors 166 CHAPTER 6 Praise and its purposes 183 Bibliography 190 TEXTS 190 STUDIES 194 Index 202
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Burrow, John Anthony
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
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