lyric poetry

collocation in English

meaningsoflyricandpoetry

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lyric
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪr.ɪk/us
/ˈlɪr.ɪk/
(especially of poetry and songs) expressing personal thoughts ...
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poetry
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tri/us
/ˈpoʊ.ə.tri/
poems in general as a form ...
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(Definition oflyricandpoetryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even inlyricpoetry, many poets have merged the descriptive and the narrative in startling ways as part of the structure.
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Lyricpoetryis nowhere to be found and the realist novel has disappeared along with its precondition of bourgeois individualism.
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Hemmed in by the intertwining boughs of the border, the portrait emphasises the solipsistic pleasure of individuatedlyricpoetry.
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Lyricpoetry, so inalienably associated with reflection and interiority during the nineteenth century, thus assumed a particularly significant role in the age of secularisation.
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His writing career began in the early 1990s with journalism, moving on tolyricpoetryand translations.
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Later aestheticians identified three major genres: epic poetry,lyricpoetry, and dramatic poetry, treating comedy and tragedy as subgenres of dramatic poetry.
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Two main themes of her works were the national identity andlyricpoetry.
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Topics are usuallylyricpoetry, classic and contemporary literature or linguistics (history and changes to the language).
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He started his literary career by writinglyricpoetry, but after 1882 moved to more epic themes.
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These were rhetoric, law, epic, tragedy, comedy,lyricpoetry, history, medicine, mathematics, natural science and miscellanies.
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Lyricpoetrywas certainly not one of the kinds that rose to any great height in the 16th century.
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In general all thelyricpoetryof the 17th century had the same defects, but in different degrees.
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He writeslyricpoetry, prose, short stories, novels and audio plays.
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His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrotelyricpoetry.
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In contrast to the style oflyricpoetry, or humble verse ("verso humilde"), he is thinking about this exciting tone of oratory.
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He turned his attention for a while tolyricpoetry, looking for forgotten poetic processes which would enable him to discover new, universal aesthetics.
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In the 1860s, he returned to writinglyricpoetry, especially sonnets.
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The suggestive musicality of his verses developed into the hallmark of his laterlyricpoetry, to mixed criticism.
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Only two pieces of hislyricpoetrysurvive, both "cansos" on courtly love, one with a surviving melody.
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