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ISBN/UID: 9780521175463
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03 March 2011
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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 clas...
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196 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521175463
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03 March 2011
Description
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 clas...