lyric poet

The entry for Catullus, several of whose poems I could recite from memory in Latin, read: "The greatest lyric poet of Rome."

This is partly because Wells, with the unaffected precision of a lyric poet, is very nearly reinventing the language of film, unlocking the medium’s often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling.

Pindar'ic, after the style and manner of Pindar—a lyric poet of Greece.

McCarthy is the first essayist I recall reading who contrasts the gifts of blues singer Billie Holiday with those of the lyric poet Sappho: “Compare the ‘Midnight Poem,’ for instance, to Billie Holiday singing from Ellington’s composition ‘In My Solitude.’

Completely flabbergasted that they would choose a white American lyric poet.