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
Jens Baggesen is the greatest comic poet that Denmark has produced; and as a satirist and witty lyrist he has no rival among the Danes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
He remains nevertheless essentially a lyrist, a maker of songs; a thorough artist who has seriousness, dignity, and charm.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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 Brander Matthews
