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Pindarics (alternatively
Pindariques or Pindaricks) was a term for a
class of
loose and
irregular odes
greatly in
fashion in
England during the close...
- Gr****s).
There are
three typical forms of odes: the
Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular.
Pindaric odes
follow the form and
style of Pindar.
Horatian odes...
-
termed Pindarics,
though the ****ociation with
Pindar was
largely fanciful.
Abraham Cowley was
considered the main
exponent of
English Pindarics. In fact...
- form and structure, but
generally showing the
original influence of the
Pindaric or
Horatian ode. One non-Western form
which resembles the ode is the qasida...
-
between 1745 and 1750) The
Progress of Poesy: A
Pindaric Ode (written
between 1751 and 1754) The Bard: A
Pindaric Ode (written
between 1755 and 1757) The Fatal...
- Churchyard". That poem
inspired numerous imitators, and soon both the
revived Pindaric ode and "elegy" were commonplace. Gray used the term
elegy for a poem of...
- consumption). In 1701, Anne
Finch (later,
Countess of Winchilsea) had
published a
Pindaric ode, The Spleen,
drawing on her first-hand
experiences of an affliction...
- from the
mythical king of Argos, Temenus).
Surviving fragments of the
Pindaric ode seem to
confirm his parti****tion, by
praising "his
pentathlon victory"...
- and as one of the
types of
permissible lines in
lyrical stanzas and the
Pindaric odes of
Cowley and Dryden.
Several attempts were made in the 19th century...
- Horace's
Sapphic and
Alcaic Odes and, on the other, the
loosely structured Pindarics ****ociated with the odes of Pindar.
Translations occasionally involved...
