lyrist

Example Sentences

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Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018

A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

She is best as a lyrist, and some of her poems are touched with a very fine and true pathos.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

How could that lyrist be harsh in his diction, who almost draws tears from our eyes, while his melodious lines and picturing epithets are remembered by his readers?

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

The greatest poet of the lyric age, the lyrist par excellence Pindar, adds much to our conception of Greek love at this period.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington