anacreontic

noun

Definition of anacreonticnext
as in English sonnet

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  1. pastoral
  2. psalm
  3. epic
  4. idyll
  5. epigram
  6. madrigal
  7. poem
  8. elegy
Noun
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
Definition of pastoral
Noun
  • According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
Definition of psalm
Noun
  • Either way, there’s a box office battle brewing between Universal’s pink-and-green musical and Paramount’s bloody sword-and-sandal epic, both of which open on Friday.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Based on what many consider to be one of the greatest Italian novels of all time, The Leopard is a dazzlingly sensuous epic, set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860s Sicily.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of epic
Noun
  • Then, one day, a dark cloud appeared, as if summoned by a witch jealous of their domestic idyll.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Iconic visitors who helped to establish the glamorous allure of this little hilltop idyll include Greta Garbo, Orson Wells and Marlene Dietrich.
    Alexandra Zagalsky, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of idyll
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Definition of epigram
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Definition of madrigal
Noun
  • The title that Moss has chosen for her memoir riffs on a poem that May Swenson published in 1978.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That last work is a room-size installation that lists the names of 262 deceased men and women next to a neon sign that reads a dream, invoking a poem by Langston Hughes.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of poem
Noun
  • Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of elegy
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