Politics, poetics, and the Pindaric ode : 1450-1700

Publication Data

• Title Politics, poetics, and the Pindaric ode : 1450-1700
• Author Stella Purce Revard
• Publisher Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Tempe
• Language English

Contents

The praise of great men : politics and patronage in Italy and France
Royal encomia : Ronsard and his followers in France and England
The political Pindaric in Commonwealth England
Cowley and the Pindarique odes : text and subtext
Stuart apologetics : Aphra Behn and John Dryden
The art of the funeral Pindaric : Threnody in Italy and France
"Melodious tears" : the English ode-elegy
The poetics of the familiar Pindaric
The celebration of place : the early modern city ode.

Topics

• Laudatory poetry :: History and criticism
• European poetry :: Renaissance, 1450-1600 :: History and criticism
• European poetry :: Renaissance, 1450-1600 :: Greek influences

Politics, poetics, and the Pindaric ode : 1450-1700 by Stella Purce Revard. ISBN 9782503528960. Published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.