Anacreon (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Anacreon is remembered only for his poetry.
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Included in the Alexandrine canon of nine Greek lyric poets, Anacreon has influenced generations of poets since classical times, although it is difficult to measure his influence precisely with such fragmentary texts. The surviving fragments show that Anacreon set a high standard for sophisticated, polished, short poems written in a variety of meters. While he appears to favor a combination of Glyconics and Pherecrateans in his extant verse, he is best known for the Anacreontic...
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