The Anacreontic Poetry of Germany in the Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Malherbe, Racan, Voiture. Saint-pavin, Maucroix, Chapelle, Pa villon, Deshoulieres, Chaulieu, La Fare, Rousseau, and Grecourt; in the eighteenth Voltaire, Gresset, gentil-bernard, Bernis, Bertin, Moncrif, and Farny. These were the poets who exercised such remarkable influence on the Anacreontic poetry of Germany. There were others who were occasionally imitated, Dorat, Quin ault, the lively writer of operas, and the representatives of the idyllic element, which also recurs to a great extent in the German poetry, Léonard and Saint Lambert.

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