anacreontic
- noun
- /ˌænəˈkriːɒntɪk/
- Literature
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anacreóntico
- She admired the work of the anacreontic writers from the eighteenth century, who wrote beautifully about the joys of drinking and romance.
- Anacreontic verse
- Anacreontic tradition
Examples
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But Webster's does capture the features that made Anacreontic verse more than merely poetry celebrating drinking and more than a "shallow" and trivial form.
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Here the "Anacreontic figure" conveys a risk to feminine respectability that EBB willingly takes because the wine signifies the "life of writing" for her, much as liquor later signifies the life of the imagination in Dickinson's "I taste a liquor."
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Most studies treat the Anacreontic tradition as a minor mode in early modern and eighteenth-century English and European literature.
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Nostalgia for Anacreontic verse also persisted.
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American Anacreontic Discourse, Dickinson's "I taste a liquor," and "Wine of Cyprus"
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I. The Rise and Demise of Anacreontic Verse (with a Victorian Slant).
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"Since her paraphrase of "If the leaves" with its masculine counting motif dates from the same period as Sonnets from the Portuguese, the Anacreontic forms an intriguing countertext to "Let me count the ways" in her most famous sonnet.
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Yet along with Holmes, other writers testify to the Anacreontic tradition informing the Dionysian Romanticism that Warner describes, contrary to Roth's comment that "almost no anacreontic poetry was produced in the United States" (p. 339n41).
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The poet's latest collection includes several anacreontic pieces that celebrate the joys of love and wine.
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Many ancient anacreontic poems reflect a carefree attitude towards life, emphasizing themes of pleasure and revelry.
Synonyms
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A person who writes words in a musical way that creates images to show feelings
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word anacreontic comes from the Greek poet Anacreon, and an anacreontic is a poet who writes short, playful poems about love, wine, and the pleasures of life, just like him.