Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: from Pindar to Pound
- Chapter 1 The poetics of praise
- Chapter 2 Old English, especially Beowulf
- Chapter 3 Middle English
- Chapter 4 Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chapter 5 The decline of praise: two modern instances
- Chapter 6 Praise and its purposes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: from Pindar to Pound
- Chapter 1 The poetics of praise
- Chapter 2 Old English, especially Beowulf
- Chapter 3 Middle English
- Chapter 4 Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chapter 5 The decline of praise: two modern instances
- Chapter 6 Praise and its purposes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- The Poetry of Praise , pp. 180 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008