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

Different, indeed, is the case when we come to consider Ramsay as a song-writer and a lyrist.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Himself a lyrist of distinction, Stefan Zweig has accomplished the difficult feat, which in this country still waits to be done, of translating the great mass of Verhaeren's poems into actual and enduring verse.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

When Professor Boyesen visited Hugo some ten years ago he found that the great French lyrist had never heard of Emerson.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander