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- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan | - Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan | ||
== '''Examples from Renaissance and Restoration times''' == | |||
- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' (1599) (ibid.) | |||
- [[John Dryden]], ''Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second'' (1660) | - [[John Dryden]], ''Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second'' (1660) | ||
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Cuddon, J.A., ed. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory''. Penguin Reference: London, 1999. | Cuddon, J.A., ed. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory''. Penguin Reference: London, 1999. | ||
Revision as of 16:16, 13 July 2009
A panegyric (Gk 'pertaining to public assembly' [PDLTLT 632]) 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)." (ibid.)
Examples from Classical times
- festival oration by Isocrates (436-338 BC) at the Olympic Games in 380
- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan
Examples from Renaissance and Restoration times
- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) (ibid.)
- 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.