Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics
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Excerpt from Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics: And Other Selections From the Greek Anthology Cowley, Moore, and others, who have made graceful and buoyant paraphrases of Anacreontic imitations, have obscured the real Anacreon. He is a legend, a myth. The few actual remains of his verse, though so delicate, graceful, and yet strong, have inspired no modern poets. They have been content to imitate his imitators. What he really wrote, his real character, even the details of his life, are difficult to disentangle from the fancies which ages have spun around his name. From the few fragments remaining, we can partly reconstitute the man. He is commonly regarded as the poet laureate of the wine-cup, and yet he commends five parts of water and three of wine - a very temperate mixture. He spoke out his disgust for those who let their passion for the stimulus of the flowing bowl lead them to neglect the muses and talk of quarrels and tearful war. He despised sottishness as barbaric, and found the pleasure of the wine-cup in its quickening, and not stupefying, the wits. His extant poetry is marked by wonderful grace, refinement, and spontaneity. In his own day it was regarded as faultless of its kind, and yet never laboured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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