Young was surely not the most unfair of poets for prefixing to a lyric composition an "Essay onLyric Poetry," so just and impartial as to condemn himself.
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.
The Lyric Poems are almost all of the light and airy kind, such as trip lightly and nimbly along, without the load of any weighty meaning.
He had least success in his lyric attempts, in which he seems to have been under some malignant influence; he is always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid.
Prefixed to the original publication were an "Ode to the King, Pater Patriae," and an "Essay on Lyric Poetry.
Akenside is to be considered as a didactic and lyric poet.
If Young be not a lyric poet, he is at least a critic in that sort of poetry; and, if his lyric poetry can be proved bad, it was first proved so by his own criticism.
The Bacchae is the most formal Greek play known to us; its Chorus is its very soul and its lyric songs are as long as they are magnificent.
The plot is based on a variant of the canonical legend about Helen, a variant generally associated with the ancient lyric poet, Stesichorus.
One is the old stiff Euripidean prologue; the other a fine and vigorous scene of lyric dialogue, which must have suited the taste of the time far better, just as it suits our own.
The Lyric League[9] We be seventy Lyric Poets, All in the Fatherland, Our verse is delightful, although its Not easy to understand.
Seventy lyric poets in Germany have formed a trade's union, and agreed not to sell their verses for less than half a mark a line.
There was a distinct impression of relief when the third poem was found to be written as a lyric with a comfortable jolt about it, to which Lady Miller, after two or three false starts, accommodated her voice.
Such personification has obvious dramatic and lyric elements; but Andersen lacked the technique of poetic and dramatic art, and marred his prose descriptions, both in novels and books of travel, by an intrusive egotism and lyric exaggeration.
Atterbom, one of the greatest lyric poets of his country.
In the lyric poetry, this is so decided that all the Anglo-Saxon lyrics have been called elegies.
My excited state of mind, the crowd of people, perhaps even the lyric of my thoughts, made me wonderfully alive to poetical impressions; and many a poet's heart has felt as mine did!
We find here the strain of elegiac sadness, of regretful retrospection, so generally present in Anglo-Saxon poetry of lyric character, and usually much more pronounced than in 'Widsith.
A favorite theme in the older lyric poems is the complaint of some wandering scôp, driven from his home by the exigencies of those perilous times.
If, again, no true lyric can express a narrow egoism, least of all could the Swedish, in spite of the indivisible relation between nature and man.
The countless parodies of the lyric and dramatic literature of Greece are perhaps the most remarkable testimony extant to the intelligence of an Athenian audience.
Fauré has been fastidious in his selection of texts and he is fortunate to have been able to avail himself of the genius of such lyric poets as Leconte de Lisle, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Sully-Prudhomme and others.
His melodies are always appropriate to the spirit of the words, yet truly lyric and singable, and the accompaniment catches and intensifies every subtle shade of meaning.
Music] In general, Chopin's style is homophonic--wondrous lyric melodies which seem to float on waves of richly colored sound.
Grieg, a born lyric poet saturated with folk-music, has embodied this spirit in his works.
The function of criticism at the present time is to proclaim the lyric poet and persuade readers to subject themselves to the enchantment of his songs.
I come upon "A Green Cornfield," a lovely lyric that must have made Shelley look down with interest "from the abode where the eternal are.
Sometimes, like Meredith, rather than like Hardy, whose style is colder and more austere, Mr. Lawrence is almost too lyric and his phrases threaten to overflow the rigid dikes of prose.
It may be that the lyric "To Helen" has been overpraised, though it is difficult to understand how there can be too much praise for a masterpiece.
Yet to treat him only as a lyric poet is to forget his great drama, "The Cenci," which can hold up its head undiminished beside the Elizabethans.
He can spare a tender lyric to the memory of a Prussian officer, a lad of eighteen, shot dead through a volume of Pindar which he carried in his tunic.
His songs are his best things; they really are songs, not merely lyric poems.
In the first place, they are of two kinds--lyric and narrative.
It is hardly necessary to say that this gratifying and welcome strangeness, this lyric originality, is nearly all that M.
While comedy retains either the choral ode in its strict form, or its representative in the shape of lyric enthusiasm (le lyrisme), comedy is complete and living.
Gringoire, to our mind, has plenty of lyric enthusiasm; but M.
The orators who deal in argument are more easily comprehended by the multitude than the orators who are fired with enthusiasm; one must have wings to follow the lyric orator.
This theory, invented expressly to give the greatest glory to the lyric orators and to the giants, is here at fault.
Rousseau is still named as a lyric poet of the time of Louis XIV.
Do we not see a living portrait of the two poets in the lyric 'So the head aches and the limbs are faint'?
The exquisite lyric girl, brave, tender and with a mind in which wisdom and wit are fair playfellows.
Are Mr. Stedman's local and patriotic themes inconsistent with the highest degree of lyric grace, or does his poetic gift appear to best advantage when enlivened by familiar home interests?
Is Mrs. Moulton too narrowly restricted to emotional themes and emotional means of expression for bounteous poetic cheer, or is the perfect alliance of her emotional range and workmanship the very source of her lyric excellence.
Hyperion," though written in prose, is scarcely anything more than a long drawn out lyric poem, so thoroughly is action subordinated to reflection, and so beautiful and rhythmic is the dignified flow of its periods.
Now there is something essentially vague about Weltschmerz; it is an atmosphere, a "Stimmung" more or less indefinable, rather than the statement inlyric form of certain definite grievances with their particular and definite causes.
And since he was a lyric poet, it is perhaps natural that the sorrows which concerned him personally should find most frequent expression in his verse.
The collection is completed by a few poems on children, some sonnets, a threnody on John William Inchbold, and a lovely lyric entitled The Interpreters.
He is the first lyric poet who has tried to make an absolute surrender of his own personality, and he has succeeded.
The Odes of Horace want the higher inspirations of lyric verse.
Lyric poetry was little cultivated at Rome after the death of Horace; but satire, which was peculiar to the Romans, reached its highest excellence under the empire.
Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time.
A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Defn: A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.
A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Defn: A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
Defn: A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp.
He also travelled from one village to another throughout Serbia, zealously collecting and inscribing the epic and lyric poems, legends, and traditions as he heard them from the lips of bards and story-tellers, professional and amateur.
It contained 200 lyric songs, which he called zenske pyesme (i.
From this edition Sir John Bowring made his metrical translation of certain of the lyric and epic poems, which he published in 1827 under the title Servian Popular Poetry.
This may be a glance at those days, as the Countess Guicciardini Sonata (most lyric of all, like the passion of an Oriental night) is a burning record of others.
The intellectual tension induced by the master film was relieved by a livelier, more lyric and less philosophical drama: Mack Schnarken and the Bathing Suit Babes in a comedy of manners entitled "Right on the Coco.
At the end of the third ornithological lyric Miss Sherwin roused from her attitude of inspired vision and breathed to Carol, "My!
Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray hislyric whine, his mangled consonants.
I've felt nolyric impulse, truth to tell, From that day forth.
They, too, took up the use of rhyme, using it so skillfully as to become the teachers of Europe in lyric poetry.
It is in lyric poetry that the moderns have chiefly excelled the ancients, in variety, in elevation of sentiment, and in imagination.
He was the first to mould the Latin tongue to the Greek lyric measures.
Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric prodigality.
Even where his patriotism became a lyric cry, this Zal tainted the source of Chopin's joy.
The C sharp minor theme is of lyric beauty, the coda with its scales, brilliant.
And difficult it is to interpret with all its plangent lyric freedom.
It is Chopin in his most reflective, yet lyric mood.
A climax mounts to a fine frenzy until the lyric intermezzo in B is reached.
He was Frederic Francois Chopin, composer, teacher of piano and a lyric genius of the highest range.
Theophile Gautier, whose cult was the worship of physical beauty, wrote in almost lyric prose of her seductive charm.
