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ISBN/UID: 9780521886932
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08 May 2008
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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: 9780521886932
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08 May 2008
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...