lyric poet
Emotional verse writer
A lyric poet writes verse expressing personal emotion and subjective experience, as distinct from narrative or dramatic poetry.
The term traces to ancient Greece, where such poems were sung to lyre accompaniment.
Sappho and Catullus were lyric poets; so were the English Romantics.
She's more lyric poet than storyteller—her work is all feeling, no plot.
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- aubadeMorning separation poem
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- lineContinuous mark or queue
- odeLaudatory verse form
Langston Hughes · inner life · first person · emotional truth · Romanticism · troubadour · carpe diem · Petrarch · love · love poem · broken heart · imagery · Horace · Emily Dickinson · song · Keats · villanelle · verse form
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Author of lengthy heroic verse
dramatic poet · Homer · Virgil · satirist · bard
lyric poetnovelist
Writer of prose narratives
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