Politics, poetics, and the Pindaric ode
Subtitle: 1450-1700
By: Stella P. Revard.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- v. 351; Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- v. 27
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Brepols
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tempe; Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780866983990
Subjects: Laudatory poetry -- History and criticism; European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism; European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Greek influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The praise of great men : politics and patronage in Italy and France; title: Royal encomia : Ronsard and his followers in France and England; title: The political Pindaric in Commonwealth England; title: Cowley and the Pindarique odes : text and subtext; title: Stuart apologetics : Aphra Behn and John Dryden; title: The art of the funeral Pindaric : Threnody in Italy and France; title: "Melodious tears" : the English ode-elegy; title: The poetics of the familiar Pindaric; title: The celebration of place : the early modern city ode.