anacreontics

One example of anacreontics from the corpus of Anacreon is fr.

In English poetry, Anacreontics are the title given to short lyrical pieces, of an easy kind, dealing with love and wine.

Elegiac couplets and anacreontics occur as well.

In modern poetry, Anacreontics are short lyrical pieces that keep the Anacreontic subject matter but not the meter.

In English poetry, Edward Fitzgerald composed in a combination of anacreontics and ionics.

Anacreontics are verses in a meter used by the Greek poet Anacreon in his poems dealing with love and wine.

Drayton was the first to bring the term ode, for a lyrical poem, to popularity in England and was a master of the short, staccato Anacreontics measure.

LXI, which contains about 38 letrillas-in the composition of which he excelled-besides a numbers of satires, epigrams, odes, anacreontics, ecologues, etc.

These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon (6th century BC), whose poems, called "anacreontics", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens.

He dwells, moreover, on the absurdity of writing "pious anacreontics," a feat, however, which was performed by several of the Greek Christian poets, and in particular by Gregory of Nazianzus and John of Damascus.

In 1800 Thomas Moore published a collection of erotic anacreontics which are also typical in form; Moore speaks of the necessity of catching "the careless facility with which Anacreon appears to have trifled," as a reason why anacreontics are often tame and worthless.