Laudatory poems (4)
I believe the answer is:
odes
'laudatory poems' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for odes that I've seen before include "Keats was fond of them" , "Lays" , "Lyric poems" , "To a Skylark, To a Nightingale etc" , "Lyrical poems" .)