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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