0 a speech or piece of writing that praises someone very much and does not mention anything bad about them:
She delivered a panegyric on the president-elect.
Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals.
These were set forth at the beginning of each reign, in manifestos, panegyrics, and ceremonies, culminating with the imperial coronation.
The logic of the panegyric implies that of the wine poem because the chaotic, insatiable nature of desire is essential to both.
Both the panegyric and the wine poem begin with the condition of separation definitive of the empirical self, figured through the idealized, unattainable beloved.
We are now in a position to examine the wine poem's logic of de-sublimation, which counters the logic of the courtly panegyric.
As i political divisions increased, he argues, the distinction between satire and panegyric often became more difficult to discern.
The wine poem dissolves a representation of the self by means of its rhetorical inversion of normative discourse and panegyric poetry.
Both the panegyric and the wine poem are concerned with self-transcendence, the liberation from fate and nature, from the constraint and suffering of quotidian existence.
