 Despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style.He was influenced in particular by Hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of Callimachus.In modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience ("Urerlebnis") and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts ("Bildungserlebnis").