Anacreon

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• Anacreontic verse was "written out" of history after the majority of the odes formerly attributed to Anacreon were reattributed to later, inferior Greek writers.

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• Moore's paraphrase conveys what EBB's "demurely" disguises, as the dove says: "From Anacreon's hand I eat / ...

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• Plato's Anacreon is "divinely inspired more by poetry than wine";

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• Antipater's Anacreon delights in the loud-voiced revels of Dionysus.

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• The "Sons of Anacreon" opened their meetings with the "Anacreontic Song," sung to the tune later used for the US national anthem: addressed "To Anacreon, in Heaven," the song petitions the "jolly old Grecian."

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• Revealingly, despite referencing Anacreon first in "Wine of Cyprus" and introducing multiple Anacreontic motifs, EBB does not include him among the Greek poets she praises.

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• Was Dickinson also alert to the ways in which EBB's allusions to Anacreon in "Wine of Cyprus" reflected the mid-nineteenth-century revaluation of most of the lyrics attributed to him?

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• "As years on years depart," only "Anacreon" has "the soul to tie an unwithering myrtle round the unblunted dart of Eros," Byron observes in Don Juan.

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• While Moore's fancy "wantons" on a heterosexual "intercourse," Anacreon, like Sappho, embodies a polymorphous desire that Moore himself artfully obscures.

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• The ancient poet Anacreon is known for his delightful verses about love and wine.

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