It had a lyrical intensity which set the Scandinavian mind vibrating.
Through a series of romantic and lyrical poems, rich in contents and highly finished in style, he developed a poetical life, which had an important influence in the young Norwegian literary circles.
In his lyrical poem, The Sayings of Sergeant Stal, he portrayed incidents of the wars of Finland fighting by the side of Sweden in 1809, when the country was conquered by Russia.
Bellman's songs generally form a sequence, a continuous chain of lyrical romance.
Lyrical Ballads' will I hope, and almost believe, afford you as unmingled pleasure as is in the nature of a collection of very various poems to afford to one individual mind.
The "Lyrical Ballads" were published about Midsummer, 1798.
It reflects credit on Hannah More, to whom I had presented the first volume, that she immediately perceived the merits of the "Lyrical Ballads.
But immediately on my arrival in this country I undertook to finish a poem which I had begun, entitled 'Christabel,' for a second volume of the 'Lyrical Ballads.
The character of Llewellyn pleases me more than anything else perhaps; and then some of the Lyrical pieces are fine varieties.
His poetry is mainly narrative, but whether epical or lyrical in form, is always less lyric in essence than Rossetti's.
His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess--dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.
Like the English, it was romantic in spirit, but was more religious in subject and more lyrical in form.
Given the subject and the lyrical impulse, and verses of this sort could be produced to order and in infinite number by poets of the humblest capacity.
Coleridge's four contributions to the "Lyrical Ballads" included his masterpiece, "The Ancient Mariner.
The tale is not evolved firmly and continuously, but with lyrical outbursts, a poignancy of sympathy at the points of highest tragic tensity and a swooning sensibility all through, that sometimes breaks into weakness.
It influenced all the lyrical poetry of the Romantic school, and especially the ballads of Uhland.
It must, however, have been composed during the previous year, because it was published in the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800.
It was published almost immediately after in the little volume of which so much has been said in these Notes, the "Lyrical Ballads," as first published at Bristol by Cottle.
As to his poetry written at this time, especially the lyrical pieces where he expresses his own sentiments, what can there be more chaste, more ethereal?
Very sweet and truly lyricalit is like all the songs scattered through Mr. Morris's narrative.
But the finest and most delicate practical sense is shown in the alternation of the two lyrical arguments,--the soulless sweetness of the one, and the deep human richness of the other.
He is also intimate with the question of apples, and he treats of it in a succulent disquisition which imparts to the somewhat trivial theme a kind of lyrical dignity.
There was that in Sarah Kantor's face that was actually lyrical as, fumbling at the bosom of her dress, she entered.
From the association of these two men came the famous Lyrical Ballads (1798), a book which marks the beginning of a new era in English poetry.
Among the longer works of Swinburne his masterpiece is the lyrical drama Atalanta in Calydon.
It may have been that their writings first opened his eyes to the possibilities of the Scots tongue in lyrical and descriptive poetry; and there was something also which appealed to him in the wretched life of Fergusson.
Even in the present day we hear too much of the inspired ploughman bursting into song as one that could not help himself, and warbling of life and love in a kind of lyrical frenzy.
Another poem of this period deserving special mention is The Whistle, not merely because of its dramatic force and lyrical beauty, but because it gives a true picture of the drinking customs of the time.
The lyrical gift implies a quick emotional sense, which in some cases may be little more than a beautiful defect in a weak nature.
But for the most part, his description, like his lyrical passion, is adapted with remarkable skill towards individualising still further the problem or character that he is analysing.
Is it not clear how, in these direct and lyrical expressions, the passion of the individual is carried up into some region where it is blended with currents of emotion broader than any one man's loss or gain?
Will Waterproofs Lyrical Monologue, made at the Cock.
The essays relating to Lyrical Ballads will be the most useful for you.
When you have understood Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, and Wordsworth's defence of them, you will be in a position to judge poetry in general.
I cannot but be touched with the feeling so beautifully expressed in a poem which I have heard repeated:* *Probably Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads had not as yet been published.
I have hitherto attempted only a few lyrical pieces," said Lovel.
The transport officer at Mustapha Pasha, with whom I became very friendly, was lyrical in his praise of the ox-wagon.
His first comedies are feeble and thin in character-drawing and the lyrical sweetness is everywhere predominant.
It is credible that Shakespeare used the drama sometimes as a means of reaching the highest lyrical utterance.
Cleopatra's lament over Antony's dead body is a piece of Shakespeare's self-revealing made lyrical by beauty of word and image.
These dithyrambs show rather the lyrical power of the writers than the thing described.
He is continually spoken of as patriotic, and it is true that he started in youth with an almost lyrical love of country.
And finally Shakespeare's supreme lyrical gift is used by Romeo as unconstrainedly as by Hamlet himself.
In spite of the fact that the second act is one chiefly of incident, filled indeed with the murder and its discovery, Shakespeare uses Macbeth as the mouthpiece of his marvellous lyrical faculty as freely as he uses Hamlet.
Shakespeare pities is not physical weakness, but mental irresolution and incapacity for action, and these Hamlet-weaknesses are accompanied by a habit of philosophic thought, and are enlivened by a nimble wit and great lyrical power.
There is a great deal of the poet-neuropath and very little of the murderer for ambition's sake in this lyrical hysteria.
Besides his lyrical poems Gongora is the author of a play entitled Las Firmezas de Isabel and of two incomplete dramas, the Comedia venatoria and El Doctor Carlino.
The most lyrical of idealists can do no more to reveal herself.
Wolcot, to write, was a man of little lyrical talent.
This change was tried out of compliment, it is believed, to Mrs. Thomson; but Nancy ran more smoothly on the even road of lyrical verse than Kate.
While indulging in these lyrical nights, politics penetrated into Nithsdale, and disturbed the tranquillity of that secluded region.
Our lyrical legends assign the inspiration of this strain to the accomplished Clarinda.
This strain in honour of Chloris is original in conception, but wants the fine lyrical flow of some of his other compositions.
The adverse generals enter accordingly, and perform a sort of duet, great part of which is a parody upon the lyrical dialogue of Villerius and the Soldan Solyman, in the "Siege of Rhodes.
These lyrical poems were full of energy and inspiration, and it was clear that the very antithesis of the classical style had now been reached.
This work, which speedily went through several editions, was the lyrical record of twenty-five years.
I must refer in this place to some of Victor Hugo's lyrical efforts.
I won't say that it contains some of the most lyrical lyrics in English, but I will say that there are lyrics in it as good as have been produced by anybody at all in the present century.
There are passages toward the close of the book which may fitly be compared with the lyrical freedoms of no matter what epic, and which display an unsurpassable dexterity of hand.
Even in the amiable character that figures in the dawn of a higher life, in Ewald von Kleist, the lyrical strivings are very remarkable.
Mortimer Collins, poet and novelist, had a very happy knack for the lighter kinds of lyrical verse, half playful and half serious.
The Unknown Eros (1877) is a work strangely different from The Angel in the House; it is more lyrical and more ambitiously imaginative; and for this very reason it brings into greater prominence Patmore's weaknesses.
It is composed of two parts, separated by The Lay of Elena, a lyrical piece in which may be detected echoes both of Wordsworth and Coleridge, with an occasional suggestion of Scott.
In Memoriam is essentially a lyrical poem, and the years immediately before and after its publication are those in which Tennyson's lyricalgenius was in fullest flower.
The Seraphim, a lyrical drama, though immature, is of high promise.
He was very successful in the lighter lyrical strain, and appears at his best in his rollicking and amusing university songs.
Besides his dramas, Jonson wrote many lyrical pieces, including some admirable songs, and produced sundry examples of other forms of versification.
Although the poem perhaps lacks in unity of conception and precision of style, it contains many noble passages that are admitted by critics to mark a very high order of lyrical genius.
He is really a poet with a splendid lyrical inspiration; but he combines this in his plays with an acquired but effective talent for stage-craft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lyrical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: lyric; lyrical; melodious; musical; poetic; pretty
