Neo-Latin Anacreontic Poetry Its Shape(s) and Its Significance

As a basis for my further discussion it will be convenient to recall some facts concerning the discovery, the publication, and the initial literary appreciation of the Carmina Anacreontea (CA) in mid-16 th cent. France. 1 I shall put an emphasis on the enthusiasm of critics and poets about a new stylistic possibility opened up by CA. To some extent, this enthusiasm also accounts for the later creative imitations and adaptions in Neo-Latin poetry

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