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(Gk 'pertaining to public assembly') | A '''panegyric''' (Gk 'pertaining to public assembly') is a poem or speech of public praise, usually for a person of renown (e.g., the king, a minister of state, a war hero). | ||
Originally panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in ''Poetics Libri Septem''(1561). | "Originally panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in ''Poetics Libri Septem''(1561)." (PDLTLT 632) | ||
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- the festival oration delivered by Isocrates (436-338 BC) | - the festival oration delivered by Isocrates (436-338 BC)at the Olympic Games in 380 | ||
- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan | - Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan | ||
- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' (1599) | - Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' (1599) (ibid.) | ||
Revision as of 15:03, 13 July 2009
A panegyric (Gk 'pertaining to public assembly') is a poem or speech of public praise, usually for a person of renown (e.g., the king, a minister of state, a war hero). "Originally panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in Poetics Libri Septem(1561)." (PDLTLT 632)
Examples from Classical times
- the festival oration delivered by Isocrates (436-338 BC)at the Olympic Games in 380
- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan
- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) (ibid.)
Examples from Restoration times
- John Dryden, Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second (1660)
- Nahum Tate, Come Ye Sons of Art (1694)
Sources
Cuddon, J.A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Reference: London, 1999.
Powerpoint presentation by Anette Pankratz