• example of anacreontics from the corpus of Anacreon is fr. 11b PMG, which ends as follows: In this extract, the first four lines are anacreontics, while the...
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    "The Anacreontic Song", also known by its incipit "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's...
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    court poet Anacreon, who lived in the 6th century B.C. and whose poems, "anacreontics", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens. Dubbed "the convivial...
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  • Petronius. In English poetry, Edward Fitzgerald composed in a combination of anacreontics and ionics. An example of English ionics occurs in lines 4 and 5 of the...
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    Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. Smiths' song, "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics...
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    Johann Christian Bach. Smith is best known for writing the music for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the American patriotic song "The Star-Spangled...
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    Lyrical (1830), in which the following poems were published: "No More", '"Anacreontics" and "A Fragment" contributed to The Gem: A Literary Annual (1831) "Sonnet"...
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  • gives is not completely galliambic but in a metre which consists of two anacreontics without catalexis. George Choeroboscus (9th century AD?), in a discussion...
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  • example composed entirely in ionic feet, with ten feet to each stanza. Anacreontics are also very rare. The Galliambic metre of Catullus's poem 63 (but of...
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  • Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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    as Aphrodite, Eros and Dionysus, are not so very unlike what we call "Anacreontic" poetry as to make the contrast of style as great as the word might seem...
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  • Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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  • Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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    "Anacreontics" 153 154...
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  • 2023. Hawthorne, Mark D. (1975). "Thomas Moore's "The Epicurean": The Anacreontic Poet in Search of Eternity". Studies in Romanticism. 14 (3): 249–272...
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  • Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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  • "La Marseillaise" and John Stafford Smith who wrote the tune for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled...
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    crying to his mother Venus". Theocritus, Idyll 19. It also appears in Anacreontic poetry. Jane Kingsley-Smith, Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture...
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    of 89 sonnets (Amoretti), along with a series of short poems called Anacreontics and the Epithalamion, a public poetic celebration of marriage. Only six...
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    Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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    Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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    2023 at the Wayback Machine On the contrast between the Theognidean and Anacreontic visions of pederasty, see Andrew Lear, 'Ancient Pederasty: an introduction'...
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  • voice in 1974. Some of her most notable works are "Feet of Jesus" and "Anacreontics" The cantata "Feet of Jesus" is set to poems by Langston Hughes. Cloud's...
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    song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London and lyrics written by American...
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  • the first or second metron, or all three metra may be ionic. In the anacreontic metre, according to the ancient grammarian Hephaestion, two different...
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  • Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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    from the 18th-century English song "The Anacreontic Song" written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. The...
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  • according to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 22:21) Johann Uz (1720-1796), German anacreontic poet Uz, Iran Uzbekistan, a country (ISO 3166: UZ) .uz, its top-level...
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  • the anacreontic, made popular by the 6th-century BC singer Anacreon. In the following couplet, an ionic dimeter is combined with an anacreontic. The...
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    Consumer Research, pp. 1–18. Hunter, Parks, C., Jr. "Undercurrents of Anacreontics in Shelley's 'To a Skylark' and 'The Cloud'. Studies in Philology, Vol...
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