Lyrists

Word LYRISTS
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What do we mean by lyrists?

A person who plays the lyre.

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The word "lyrists" in example sentences

The brilliant simplicity and pointed grace of the three stanzas to Œnone ( "What conscience, say, is it in thee") recall the lyrists of the Restoration in their cleanlier and happier mood. ❋ Robert Herrick (1632)

Poets, lyrists shaped our national consciousness and gave expression to our national aspirations in bygone times - and they are continuing to shape that consciousness to this very day. ❋ Unknown (1984)

On the stand was a whole new group of musicians: harpists, lyrists, players of the flageolet and dulcimer, two men sweating over glockenspiels, a group equipped with zithers and citharas and sitars, three women playing nose-flutes, two men with shofars, and a tall, blond man playing a clarino trumpet. ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)

By fugitive poetry we mean the work of those usually classed as song-writers and lyrists, leaving out the big guns, if we have had any of the latter tribe since Milton, who was himself strongest in short poems. ❋ Various (N/A)

John Dunlop is entitled to a place in the catalogue of Caledonian lyrists. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nevertheless this period includes in prose one writer greater than any prose writer of the previous century, namely Francis Bacon, and, further, the book which unquestionably occupies the highest place in English literature, that is the King James version of the Bible; and in poetry it includes one of the very greatest figures, John Milton, together with a varied and highly interesting assemblage of lesser lyrists. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

They have occasionally a quaint, antique flavor, suggesting the diction of the Elizabethan lyrists, but without their delicate, elusive richness of melody. ❋ Various (N/A)

Different in station and occupations -- even in motives to composition -- these three great lyrists were each deeply influenced by that peculiar acquaintance with Scottish feeling which, brilliantly illustrated by their genius, has deeply impressed their names on the national heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

There is a book, "Gli Ornamenti delle Donne," which will tell you what that bastion of a fair girl should be; and what it should be those Paduan lyrists will more than assure you Ippolita's was. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)

Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been ranked as the first of American lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which has so long controlled the destinies of American Letters, in conducting the thing called the "North American Review." ❋ Various (N/A)

Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been ranked as the first of American lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which has so long controlled the destinies of American ❋ Various (N/A)

The last important group among these lyrists is that of the more distinctly religious poets. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

This surely would be the verdict of an impartial critic who compared Homer, the lyrists, the tragedians, Plato, Theocritus, the epigrammatists, with the corresponding names in modern literatures. ❋ Various (N/A)

About this there can be no doubt, however great may seem to be the interval between the ideas of Ovid and those of the Provençal lyrists, not to speak of their greater scholars in Italy, Dante and ❋ W. P. Ker (N/A)

Its epic poets are followed by the lyrists and these by the tragedians: tragedy passes into the New Comedy, which is followed by the learned and artistic poetry of Alexandria. ❋ Various (N/A)

How is it that a writer once known as the greatest master of English prose, and a poet once named the most conspicuous of English lyrists, are now but names? ❋ John Dover Wilson (1925)

There is no doubt at all that in Li T'ai-po we have one of the world's greatest lyrists. ❋ Unknown (1921)

But not only Herrick, metaphysical poets like Carew and Stanley and others owe much both of their turn of conceit and their care for form to Jonson's own models, the Latin lyrists, Anacreon, the Greek Anthology, neo-Latin or Humanist poetry so rich in neat and pretty conceits. ❋ Herbert J.C. Grierson (1921)

Irish lyrists, he is entirely free from the morbidity and fantastic sentiment so much affected by modern poets. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

If he is not the most important, he is at any rate not the least distinguished of that remarkable group of Caroline lyrists described so unsympathetically, it might even be said so ineptly, by ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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