Anacreontic poets

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Anacreontic poets were writers, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, who composed light, lyrical verse celebrating love, wine, and conviviality in imitation of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon.

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Label Occurrences
Anacreontic poetry 2
Anacreontea 1
Anacreontic poets canonical 1

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf group of poets
literary movement
poetic tradition
associatedWith Anacreontic poets self-linksurface differs
surface form: Anacreontics

Rococo architecture
surface form: Rococo literature

convivial poetry
courtly culture
salon culture
basedOn poetry of Anacreon
contrastedWith didactic poetry
heroic epic
religious poetry
culturalContext Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment era

early modern Europe
genre lyric poetry
hasMainInfluence Anacreon
hasNotableMember Abraham Cowley
Ewald von Kleist
surface form: Ewald Christian von Kleist

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Kleist
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
Pietro Metastasio
Robert Herrick
Thomas Moore
Vinzenz von Koczian
imitates Anacreon
influenced Rococo poetry
light verse traditions in Europe
influencedBy ancient Greek lyric poetry
languageOfComposition English
French
German
Italian
literaryForm Anacreontic verse
periodOfFlourishing 17th century
18th century
primaryAudience educated elites
salon society
styleCharacteristic absence of high seriousness
focus on immediate pleasure
graceful diction
hedonistic outlook
light tone
musicality
playful mood
short lyrical forms
simplicity of expression
song-like structure
typicalTheme banqueting
conviviality
drinking
erotic love
love
pastoral enjoyment
sensual pleasure
wine

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anacreon influenced Anacreontic poets
Anacreon subjectOf Anacreontic poets
this entity surface form: Anacreontea
Anacreontic poets associatedWith Anacreontic poets self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Anacreontics
Friedrich von Hagedorn movement Anacreontic poets
this entity surface form: Anacreontic poetry
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim movement Anacreontic poets
this entity surface form: Anacreontic poetry