Anacreontic

  • 21Anacreontics — (from the name of the Greek poet Anacreon), the title given to short lyrical pieces, of an easy kind, dealing with love and wine. The English word appears to have been first used in 1656 by Abraham Cowley, who called a section of his poems… …

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  • 22John Stafford Smith — (March 30, 1750 – September 21, 1836) was an English composer born in Gloucester, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.He is best known for writing… …

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  • 23Johann Georg Jacobi — (September 2, 1740 ndash; January 4, 1814) was a German poet.The elder brother of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Georg was born at Pempelfort near Düsseldorf. He studied theology at Göttingen and jurisprudence at Helmstedt, and …

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  • 24Esteban Manuel de Villegas — (born Matute, La Rioja on 5 February 1589; died Nájera, La Rioja on 3 September 1669) was a 17th century Spanish poet. Biography Villegas studied in Madrid and enrolled at the University of Salamanca on 20 November, 1610. He was the royal… …

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  • 25Anacreon (disambiguation) — Anacreon was a poet from Ancient Greece.Anacreon may also refer to:* Anacréon, the title of two operas written by Jean Philippe Rameau * Anacreon (planet), fictional planet in the novels of Isaac Asimov * Anacreon Province, also referred to in… …

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  • 26R. J. S. Stevens — Richard John Samuel Stevens (born 27 March 1757 in London, England; died 23 September 1837 in Peckham near London) was an English composer and organist. BiographyIn 1801 Stevens was appointed Gresham Professor of Music in London. [… …

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  • 27To Anacreon in Heaven — ist der Beginn des ersten Verses des The Anacreontic Song. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Bedeutung 2 Text 3 Literatur 4 Weblinks …

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  • 28Anacreon — /euh nak ree euhn/, n. c570 c480 B.C., Greek writer, esp. of love poems and drinking songs. * * * or Anakreon born с 582 BC, Teos, Ionia died с 485 Last great lyric poet of Asian Greece. Only fragments of his poetry have survived. Though he may… …

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  • 29Aeolic verse — is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and… …

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  • 30bucolic — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, English sonnet, Homeric, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Theocritean, agrarian …

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