"Anacreontic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... volume much more exuberance of fancy, grotesque at times, amore conscious exercise of the picturing imagination than we find in Sterne. There is use, too, of mythological figures quite foreign to Sterne, an obvious reminiscence of Jacobi's Anacreontic experience. He exaggerates Yorick's sentimentalism, is more weepy, more tender, more sympathizing; yet, as Longo does not sufficiently emphasize, he does not touch the whimsical side of Yorick's work. ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... 'Witty things, and occasionally Anacreontic: and they have the originality which such a style must naturally possess when carried out by a feminine ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy |
