Mimnermus : (c.630 BC), Greek elegiac poet of Colophon. Only fragments of his poetry survive. His love poems are marked by tenderness & melancholy sentiment.
... have wasted time in seeking for its spirit, its inner aim, its deeper law. Anything pretty, pleasant and melodious with a beautiful idea in it would serve our turn; a song of Anacreon or a plaint of Mimnermus would be as satisfying to the poetic sense as the Oedipus, Agamemnon or Odyssey, for from this point of view they might well strike us as equally and even, one might contend, more perfect in their ...
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