lyric poetry
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lyric poetry (uncountable)
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
He has no equal in medieval German lyric poetry and perhaps not even in European lyric poetry of the Middle Ages.
‘Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time-' That's the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.
Unfortunately, much of the post-Homeric poetry-called lyric poetry because it was usually sung to a lyre-was lost in the upheavals of subsequent centuries, especially in the depredations and decay that would follow the barbarian incursions into the Greco-Roman world in the fifth century A. D.