Can Anacreon and Edgar Allen Poe be juxtaposed?

"For being an idle boy lang syne,
Who read Anacreon, and drank wine,
I early found Anacreon rhymes
Were almost passionate sometimes--
And by strange alchemy of brain
His pleasures always turned to pain--
His naivete to wild desire--
His wit to love--his wine to fire--
And so being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
And used to throw my earthly rest
And quiet all away in jest--"
from Poe's ROMANCE, also known as INTRODUCTION.
1st text, 1829; but this section first appeared
in the 1831 text.

Videlicet nunc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe

Of Anacreon, Prof. David A. Campbell wrote, "Anacreon's
extant poems are mostly witty pieces about love and wine;
he wrote in gay, simple metres, and the architecture of his
poems was masterly... Asked why he wrote hymns not to the gods
but to boys, he replied ὅτι οὗτοι ἡμῶν θεοί εἰσι, 'they are our
gods'...Most of his poems were pieces in lyric metres, especi-
ally the slight and graceful anacreontics and glyconics...but
the SUDA mentions also his elegiacs and iambics... Anacreon is
perhaps the most meticulous craftsman of all the early lyric
writers. He chooses his words carefully and positions them ef-
fectively... He is also the wittiest of these writers and makes
his points concisely... His images are fresh and clearly expre-
ssed... Posterity thought of him as a libertine and a drunkard."
David A. Campbell, GREEK LYRIC POETRY, Macmillan, 1967

Videlicet nunc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreon

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"And long may the sons of Anacreon intwine the myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' vine."

from the lyrics of "The Anacreontic Song", official song of the Anacreontic Society of London, U.K.