Pindarist

Pin´dar`ist


n.1.One who imitates Pindar.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Ronsard with affected naivete instructs the would-be Pindarist; but he also indicates what path the close reader needs to pursue in unraveling the laudatory web.
Stella P. Revard: Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450-1700
Given Pindar's benchmark status in Renaissance Europe, and the generous scope accorded here to some Pindarists, we should not be surprised to note some absences.
But at times I felt the lack of a more direct evaluation; out of so many Pindarists, which best survive the comparison they court?
Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-Ode, 1450-1700
Although Bundy's narrow concentration on the epinicia's grammar has since been (rightly) criticized for ignoring each poem's literary particularity as well as its social and economic conditions, his memorable definition of the victory songs has persisted unquestioned with remarkable tenacity: "There is no passage in Pindar and Bakkhulides that is not in its primary intent enkomiastic--that is, designed to enhance the glory of a particular patron." (13) This statement remains a fundamental presupposition for many Pindarists working today.
Hymnos/Poikilos
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