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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. 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.
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"Scholar invoked such formulas as "mere flattery" or "fulsome rhetoric" to dismiss the encomiastic literature or earlier periods as a subject for serious investigation. Recent work on the funeral elegy, the court masque, and the royal entry, however, recognizes the pervasive role of official praise in Renaissance culture. In the case of The Faerie Queene, its encomiastic intention is well known by remains uninvestigated. This study shows how the greatest...
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