Pindar

The French Pindar. Jean Dorat (1507–1588). Also Ponce Denis Lebrun (1729–1807).

The Italian Pindar. Gabriello Chiabrera; whence Chiabreresco is in Italian tantamount to “Pindaric.” (1552–1637.)

Peter Pindar. Dr. John Wolcott (1738–1812).

Pindar of England. George, Duke of Buckingham, most extravagantly declared Cowley to be the Pindar, Horace, and Virgil of England.

In Westminster Abbey, the last line of Gray’s tablet claims the honour of British Pindar for the author of The Bard.

“She [Britain] felt a Homer’s fire in Milton’s strains,

A Pindar’s rapture in the lyre of Gray.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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