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
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
A young writer can gain more from the study of a literary poet than from the study of a lyrist.
From A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Wilde, Oscar
Gosse as a poet may be described as a lyrist with attractive descriptive powers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
