An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

The memoir was diary entries, poems, letters, drawings, personal photos, and lyric compositions spanning from Love's childhood up until the year 2006, shortly after her release from a six-month rehab sentence.

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

) May calls Oxford's 16 canonical poems the ' output of a competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse.

Upon hearing of the death of Petrarch ( July 19, 1374 ), Boccaccio wrote a commemorative poem, including it in his collection of lyric poems, the Rime.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

A set of four short lyric poems ( shi 詩 ) entitled " Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows " ( 四愁詩 ), is also included with Zhang's preface.

His lyric poems as a whole give evidence of deep and lively sensibility, fine imagination, clever wit, and a true ear for melody and rhythm ; but an air of cynicism is more or less present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius.

During this period the lyric art of the troubadours reached the height of its popularity and the number of surviving poems is greatest from this period.

Courtly love found its expression in the lyric poems written by troubadours, such as William IX, Duke of Aquitaine ( 1071 – 1126 ), one of the first troubadour poets.

Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem ( 1935 – 40 ), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.

The Swedish " Phosphorists " were influenced by the Romantic movement and their chief poet, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom produced many lyric poems.

His political and social sympathies with the revolutionary movement of 1848 were shown in the dramas Wiener Immortellen ( 1848 ), Lambertine von Méricourt ( 1850 ), and Ferdinand von Schill ( 1851 ), as well as in his first collection of poems, Gedichte ( 1850 ), and in a lyric epic, Die Göttin, ein hohes Lied vom Weibe ( 1853 ).

Guillaume de Machaut's lyric output comprises around 400 poems, including 235 ballades, 76 rondeaux, 39 virelais, 24 lais, 10 complaintes, and 7 chansons royales, and Machaut did much to perfect and codify these fixed forms.

Some of his lyric output is inserted in his narrative poems or " dits ", such as Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") which includes one of each genre of lyric poetry, and Le voir dit (" A True Story "), but most are included in a separate, unordered section entitled Les loanges des dames.

Other than his Latin motets of a religious nature and some poems invoking the horrors of war and captivity, the vast majority of Machaut's lyric poems partake of the conventions of courtly love and involve statements of service to a lady and the poet's pleasure and pains.

The narrative is stuffed with prose letters and lyric poems that the narrator claims were in truth exchanged by the unhappy lovers and put in the book at the behest of his lady.

Among lyric poets, the most important figures are Anne Bradstreet, who wrote personal poems about her family and homelife ; pastor Edward Taylor, whose best poems, the Preparatory Meditations, were written to help him prepare for leading worship ; and Michael Wigglesworth, whose best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describes the time of judgment.

The Divan () of Attar consists almost entirely of poems in the Ghazal (" lyric ") form, as he collected his Ruba ' i (" quatrains ") in a separate work called the Mokhtar-nama.

The chapters containing poems consist of three parts: the semi-autobiographical narrative, the lyric that resulted from those circumstances, and brief structural outline of the lyric.

In 1738 appeared Versuch in poetischen Fabeln und Erzählungen ; in 1742 a collection of his lyric poems, under the title Sammlung neuer Oden und Lieder ; and his Moralische Gedichte in 1750.

She is highly regarded among lyric poets in Germany with her Gedichte ( Stuttgart, 1888 ) and Neue Gedichte ( 1903 ).

Johann Peter Hebel ( 10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826 ) was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, evangelical theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems ( Allemannische Gedichte ) and one of German tales ( Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes Treasure Chest of the Family Friend from the Rhine ).

Der Mäcen ( 1889 ), Krieg und Frieden ( 1891 ); of lyric poetry in 1889, 1890 ( Der Heidegänger und andere Gedichte ), 1893, and 1903 ( Bunte Beute ).

As a lyric poet, especially in Gedichte ( 1857 ) and Aus bewegten Tagen, a volume of poems ( 1869 ), he showed himself more to advantage than in his novels, of which latter, however, Untreu aus Mitleid ( 2 vols, 1868 ); Vox populi, vox dei ( 1869 ); Maria Mancini ( 1871 ); Neue Erzahlungen ( 1875 ); Sophie Monnier ( 1876 ), and Ein Frauenlos ( 1888 ) are remarkable for a certain elegance of style.

As a dramatist ( Miltiades, 1808 ), and as a lyric poet ( Gedichte, 1801 ), he had but little success.

He also edited Anacreon ( 1834 ), the fragments of Aristophanes ( 1840 ), Aristophanes ( 3rd ed., 1872 ), Sophocles ( 2nd ed., 1868 ), a lyric anthology ( 4th ed., 1890 ).

Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas wrote lyric poetry, plays, and novels, including the novel Altorių šešėly ( In the Shadows of the Altars, 3 vol., 1933 ), a remarkably powerful autobiographical novel.

The lyric goes " No mercy for C. C., ' cuz he's in a hair band ".

He edited selections from the lyric poets of Germany under the title of Lyrische Anthologie ( 20 vols., Zürich, 1803-07 ).

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

Szondi's work in Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft ( German for " General and Comparative Literary Studies ") included the genre of drama, lyric ( in particular hermetic ) poetry, and hermeneutics: " Szondi's vision of Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft became evident in both his policy of inviting international guest speakers to Berlin and his introductions to their talks.

In the autumn of 1948, Fischer-Dieskau was engaged as principal lyric baritone at the Städtische Oper Berlin ( Municipal Opera, West Berlin ), making his debut as Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos under Ferenc Fricsay.

That lyric was one of 25 which comprised Irving Berlin et al.

Gundula Janowitz ( born August 2, 1937 in Berlin, Germany ) is an Austrian lyric soprano singer of operas, oratorios and concerts.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

" Heaney's first translation came with the Irish lyric poem " Buile Suibhne ", published as Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish ( 1984 ), a character and connection taken up in Station Island ( 1984 ).

In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics ( 335 BCE ), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general ( where the tragic divides against epic and lyric ) or at the scale of the drama ( where tragedy is opposed to comedy ).

* Marion ( or Marian ), a typical name for the shepherdess character in the pastourelle genre of Old French lyric poetry

There have been three main styles of Occitan lyric poetry identified: the trobar leu ( light ), trobar ric ( rich ), and trobar clus ( closed, hermetic ).

Even though the term " courtly love " does appear only in just one extant Provençal poem ( as cortez amors in a late 12th century lyric by Peire d ' Alvernhe ), it is closely related to the term fin ' amor (" fine love ") which does appear frequently in Provençal and French, as well as German translated as hohe Minne.

* Hermann Prey ( 1929 – 1998 ), German lyric baritone

Simonides was the first to establish the choral dirge as a recognized form of lyric poetry, his aptitude for it being testified, for example, by Quintillian ( see quote in the Introduction ), Horace (" Ceae ... munera neniae "), Catullus (" maestius lacrimis Simonideis ") and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, where he says:

542 ), quoted in Plato's dialogue, the Protagoras, and reconstructed here according to a recent interpretation, making it the only lyric poem of Simonides that survives intact:

522 – 443 BC ), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

The lyric poet was distinguished from the writer of plays ( although Athenian drama included choral odes, in lyric form ), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses ( which were recited ), the writer of elegies ( accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre ) and the writer of epic.

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

* Hans Egon Holthusen ( 1913 – 1997 ), lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar