Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns. |
Not the kinds of dithyrambs we find in his Cahiers articles, where critics held forth mainly about films they loved. |
The laureate part doesn't sound very democratic either, conjuring images of Roman court flatterers, bewigged monarchs who commission dithyrambs for royal hymens. |
He died amid prosperity and dithyrambs from all the poets he'd brought to live in Athens, a thousand aliens singing Pindar and Bacchylides. |
Casaubon that evening, or on his dithyrambs about Dorothea's charm, in all which Will joined, but with a difference. |