Anacreontic poetry
- Light and cheerful poems written in the style of the Greek poet Anacreon and characterized by an erotic, amorous, or Bacchanalian spirit.
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- Anacreontic poetry
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- Poetry
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- found: Beckson, K. Literary terms, 1989(Anacreontic verse: Verse in praise of wine, women, and Epicurean pleasures generally, after the manner of Anacreon, sixth-century-B.C. Greek poet.)
- found: Harmon, J. A handbook to literature, c2006(Anacreontic poetry: Verse in the mood and manner of the lyrics of the Greek poet Anacreon; that is, poems characterized by an erotic, amatory, or Bacchanalian spirit. The characteristic Anacreontic lines consist of a pyrrhic foot, two trochees, and a spondee, for which the nearest regular English counterpart would be trochaic tetrameter.)
- found: Literary encyclopedia online, Jan. 5, 2013(Anacreontic poetry as a genre originates with the Greek lyric poet Anacreon, a native of the Aegean island of Teos, who lived from ca. 570 B.C. until ca. 480 B.C. Anacreon's style was widely imitated by Greek poets in antiquity, but also, from the mid-sixteenth century onwards, by a great many European poets who re-developed the genre in various ways.)
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