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

Here, too, the choruses blend with the action, and are unsurpassed for melody, sweetness, and tenderness, proclaiming their author as the foremost lyrist of his nation.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Simonides is the first Greek lyrist whose significance is not merely Aeolian or Dorian but Panhellenic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

B�ranger, the greatest poet of France of our era, was a mere song-writer; and Heine, the pride of young Germany, a mere satirist and lyrist.

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)