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Example sentences for "lyric poetry"

  • Lyric poetry flourished at popular assemblies and festivals, and was kept alive in oral tradition much more easily than narrative poetry was.

  • Those ideas can be expressed in lyric poetry; not so well in narrative.

  • But the stanza had been generally restricted to lyric poetry, as in Chaucer's Complaint to Pity.

  • Lyric poetry of the Provencal kind was a most exacting and difficult art; it required very peculiar conditions before it could flourish and be appreciated, and those conditions did not exist in England or in the English language.

  • One characteristic of lyric poetry is the clearness with which single details or isolated objects in Nature may be visualized and reproduced.

  • Thus, in the poem in Wright's Specimens of Lyric Poetry, p.

  • The strict form was, and is, mostly represented in lyric poetry, in verses rhyming in couplets or in cross rhyme.

  • Exposition (as in most essays) cannot as a rule be permeated with so much emotion as narration or, certainly, as lyric poetry.

  • This was through the introduction by Sir Thomas Wyatt of the Italian fashion of lyric poetry.

  • This trilogy, profound in its spiritual meaning and artistic in execution, would alone be sufficient to place Moody among the major poets had he not left us a body of lyric poetry of equal distinction.

  • He is the author of many fine poetic dramas, some of which have had successful stage presentation, and of several volumes of lyric poetry.

  • Gaston Paris has shown) to separate the spirit of French romance from the spirit of the Provençal lyric poetry.

  • The dominant interest in the French romances is the same as in the Provençal lyric poetry and in the Romaunt of the Rose; namely, the idealist or courteous science of love.

  • The romances represent in a narrative form the ideas and the spirit which took shape as lyric poetry in the South; the romances are directly dependent upon the poetry of the South for their principal motives.

  • Acquaintance with the ancients and the attendant great movement of ideas of the Renaissance reopened the true springs of lyric poetry.

  • The beginnings of the literary tradition of lyric poetry in France are found in the poetry of the Troubadours.

  • In this kind of Writing, as we prefer him before all others; so in Lyric Poetry he stands not only first, but alone.

  • Lyric poetry= expresses the deepest emotions of sentiment of the poet.

  • Lyric poetry, of which the type is the song; was originally designed to be associated with music.

  • Prefixed to the original publication were an "Ode to the King, Pater Patriae," and an "Essay on Lyric Poetry.

  • It is not easy to guess why he addicted himself so diligently to lyric poetry, having neither the ease and airiness of the lighter, nor the vehemence and elevation of the grander ode.

  • Young was surely not the most unfair of poets for prefixing to a lyric composition an "Essay on Lyric Poetry," so just and impartial as to condemn himself.

  • If Pindar is a model of lyric poetry, it would be hard to name any other ode so truly Pindaric; but more has naturally been derived from the Scriptures.

  • But the French language is not very well adapted for the higher kind of lyric poetry, while it suits admirably the lighter forms of song and epigram.

  • Conversely, the most genuine authors of elegiac gnomes trespassed upon the domain of lyric poetry, and sang of love and wine and personal experience no less than of morality.

  • Side by side with the elegy arose the various forms of lyric poetry.

  • Robert White, an indefatigable antiquary, and pleasing writer of lyric poetry, is a native of Roxburghshire.

  • A respectable writer of lyric poetry, James Macdonald was born in September 1807, in the parish of Fintry, and county of Stirling.

  • Of the existence of a lyric poetry we only know by hearsay; and the drama had nowhere in Europe yet emerged from its earliest purely liturgic condition.

  • In lyric poetry, the dull monotony was broken by the excitement of the war, and the singers of the revolution of 1848 were among the first to welcome the triumph and unification of Germany.


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