encomium

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Charles Wuorinen, a brilliant modernist composer who was only 31 when his work "Time's Encomium" became the first electronic piece to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, died March 11 at a hospital in Manhattan.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020

The more artistic aspects of Erasmus's talent come out most clearly—though they are everywhere in evidence—in those two recreations after more serious labour, the Moriae Encomium and the Colloquia.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Anticipating the gay jests which More's conversation promised, there grew in his mind that masterpiece of humour and wise irony, Moriae Encomium, the Praise of Folly.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Amongst the moderns we may reckon the "Encomium Moriae" of Erasmus, Barclay's "Euphormio," and a volume of German authors which my ingenious friend Mr. Charles Killigrew once lent me.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John

Encomium, 186.Editions good and bad, 69-70.Elks, the Hercynian, 250.Elzeviers,

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.