Written in the style of Anacreon; lighthearted, witty, and often celebrating love, wine, or pleasure in verse.
Derived from Anacreon + the suffix -ic. This term developed in English literary criticism to categorize poetry that mimicked the style and tone of the ancient Greek poet's works.
During the 1700s, English poets were obsessed with imitating Anacreon's fun, flirty style—so anacreontic became the fancy word for 'party poetry,' which tells you something about what intellectual society valued!
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