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Definition of Pindaric

Pindaric
Pindaric Pin*dar"ic, a. [L. Pindaricus, Gr. ?, fr. ? (L. Pindarus) Pindar: cf. F. pindarique.] Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n. A Pindaric ode.

Meaning of Pindaric from wikipedia

- Gr****s). There are three typical forms of odes: the Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular. Pindaric odes follow the form and style of Pindar. Horatian odes...
- termed Pindarics, though the ****ociation with Pindar was largely fanciful. Abraham Cowley was considered the main exponent of English Pindarics. In fact...
- Pindarics (alternatively Pindariques or Pindaricks) was a term for a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close...
- between 1745 and 1750) The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (written between 1751 and 1754) The Bard: A Pindaric Ode (written between 1755 and 1757) The Fatal...
- Look up Pindar or Pindaric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pindar (Pindaros, c. 518 – 438 BC) was an ancient Gr**** poet. Pindar may refer to: Pindar...
- The Bard. A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a poem by Thomas Gray, set at the time of Edward I's conquest of Wales. Inspired partly by his researches into medieval...
- life is short, seize the day). Ronsard also tried early on to adapt the Pindaric ode into French and, later, to write a nationalist verse epic modelled...
- Churchyard". That poem inspired numerous imitators, and soon both the revived Pindaric ode and "elegy" were commonplace. Gray used the term elegy for a poem of...
- and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the Pindaric odes of Cowley and Dryden. Several attempts were made in the 19th century...
- consumption). In 1701, Anne Finch (later, Countess of Winchilsea) had published a Pindaric ode, The Spleen, drawing on her first-hand experiences of an affliction...