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The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry.
Like the best of Larkin, it does the most difficult thing on earth for a lyric poet to do.
The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.
No lyric poet has been her equal for the intensity and variety of subjective states dramatized.
The classical hendecasyllabic meter chosen for this lyric melodiously prompts us to seek ancient mythic analogues.
Jim loved the lyric and took the song into the studio with guest vocalists Collin Raye and Susan Ashton.
These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet.
Sung in a whiny nasal voice over acoustic guitar strumming, the lyric would have been nothing short of painful.
Fitzgerald, a fine lyric poet, neglected today, was able to accommodate his gifts to the buoyancy and basic serenity of the Odyssey.
Tracks on the album tend to feature brief lyric verses interspersed with longer instrumental breaks.
She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed.
The lyric sheets seldom included music notation, so the balladmonger would sing the lyrics to a familiar melody.
However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico.
Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
It should be noted that Mozart was hardly kind when scoring the operatic arias for the full lyric soprano.
Yes, there is the odd dodgy track and occasional dreadful lyric, but on the whole this album is far better than many would of dreamed possible.
As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life.
Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words.
Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head.
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To this religious lyric the flagellant frenzy and the subsequent formation of Companies of Laudesi gave decisive impulse.
A lyric is indefinably more than the sentiment expressed in it, as a rose is more than its substance.
Jugoslav lyric poetry is divided into several groups, as, for instance, one grouping contains poems concerning marriage.
In its highest order, the lyric or 'ode,' it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics.
He wrote a thesis on the lyric poetry of our country comparing it with that of Europe.
The French lyric stage has mounted one of his most delicate inspirations, La Rousalka.
Why should she have prettiness, and adorableness, and the lyric gift, and such abounding confident youth?
There is not one Greek lyric devoted to what we should designate love, with perhaps something like an exception in alcman.
Such is the first and general sense of what is called the sublime, epic, allegoric, lyric substance.
From the beginning to the end of his career he was as much a lyric poet as a dramatist.
I remember one lyric tenor who was my bugbear because he had hands like a fresh, cold fish.
He is a magician, spectral at times, yet his songs have the homely lyric fervour and concision of Robert Burns.
Its essence is flavored with the day and lyric trail of the Sapphic students.
Robert White, an indefatigable antiquary, and pleasing writer of lyric poetry, is a native of roxburghshire.
The philosophic system becomes a solipsism, a pure lyric expression of the appetites of human nature.
Ibycus of Rhegium was a lyric poet, who enjoyed some reputation in his day.
As to the virelai, this species of lyric was nery fashionable in Chaucers time.
While the songs repay study, they are rather marked by a pianistic meditation than a strictly lyric emotion.
One of them has completely disappeared from the repertoire of the lyric stage.
He was roused from his almost lyric ecstacy, by a big double Saint-Jean cracker, which suddenly went off from the happy cabin.
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