Praise Poetry in Distress?

praise in hafez motenabbi’s poetry

praise background in arabic poetry reaches the age of ignorance; but praise poetry in persian, has started from the third century hijri to imitation of arabic prosody. in motenabbi and hafez’s period of life, eulogy has become abundantly widespread, and a lot of poets have been writing a lot of panegyric. the place and position of praise in motenabbi and hafez’s divan has significant difference...

Skaldic Praise Poetry and Macrologia: some observations on Óláfr fiór›arson’s use of his sources

Independence-supportive Praise versus Interdependence-promoting Praise

In praise of petroleum?

Among other difficulties (1), the World Summit on Sustainable Development -Rio+10 struggled with defining “sustainability.” Typical of efforts to make concrete this slippery concept was a preparatory paper addressing one of the most pressing issues in human development, how to bring modern energy services to the one-third of humanity whose development and survival requirements suffer from lack ...

In praise of deaneries.

If you look at the foot of this article, you will see that my address is given as the London Deanery. This is possibly appearing there for the last time. I am not retiring just yet, but the structure of our institution is about to change, and possibly the name will do so too. This gives me an opportunity to write about deaneries, and why they have been such a force for good. In case you are uns...