lyrist

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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

Ramon Zambrana, who, by-the-way, married the poetess Do�a Luisa Perez de Monte de Oca, is a lyrist of the first rank.

From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard

A rain of aristocratic poems followed, for a Spaniard is a lyrist born, and turns from prose to verse as easily as he changes his cuffs.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

There is a passage in the De Remediis utriusque Fortunæ, where the lyrist of chivalrous love pours such contempt on women as his friend Boccaccio might have envied.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington