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Definition of Anacreontics

Anacreontic
Anacreontic A*nac`re*on"tic, a. [L. Anacreonticus.] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. --De Quincey.
Anacreontic
Anacreontic A*nac`re*on"tic, n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

Meaning of Anacreontics from wikipedia

- 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...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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...
- John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics...
- 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...
- gives is not completely galliambic but in a metre which consists of two anacreontics without catalexis. George C****oboscus (9th century AD?), in a discussion...
- Lyrical (1830), in which the following poems were published: "No More", '"Anacreontics" and "A Fragment" contributed to The Gem: A Literary Annual (1831) "Sonnet"...
- Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
- Johann Sebastian 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...