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Definition of Pindarical

Pindarical
Pindarical Pin*dar"ic*al, a. Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. --Cowley.

Meaning of Pindarical from wikipedia

- Pindarics (alternatively Pindariques or Pindaricks) was a term for a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close...
- 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...
- 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...
- form and structure, but generally showing the original influence of the Pindaric or Horatian ode. One non-Western form which resembles the ode is the qasida...
- 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...
- 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...
- instructions to a porter how to find Edmund Curll's authors, Philips is a Pindaric writer in red stockings. Others who ridiculed him included Henry Carey...
- 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...
- known in English as Pindarics, Irregular Odes or Cowleyan Odes. Some of the most famous odes written after Cowley in the Pindaric tradition are Coleridge's...