lyric poets
Personal emotion versifiers
Lyric poets are poets who write verse expressing personal emotion and subjective experience, as distinct from narrative or dramatic poetry.
The term comes from the ancient Greek practice of accompanying such poems with a lyre.
Sappho and Pindar were classical lyric poets; the tradition continues through figures like Keats, Dickinson, and contemporary confessional poets.
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- loveIntense fond attachment
- broken heartEmotional pain from loss
Langston Hughes · imagery · William Wordsworth · Percy Bysshe Shelley · ode · nature · Pablo Neruda · elegy · Lord Byron · John Keats · metaphor · grief · verse form · Emily Dickinson · sonnet · simile · inner life · first person
- poetsHomer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
- greek literature topicsHomer, Iliad, Odyssey, Aesop, fables
- Ancient GreeksSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Pericles
- Elizabethan writersplaywrights, sonneteers, dramatists, chroniclers, pamphleteers
- Greek writersHomer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Greek poetryHomer, Sappho, Iliad, Odyssey, hymns
lyric poetschroniclers
Those who record events
annalists · historians · documentarians · reporters · journalists
lyric poetsnovelists
Writers of long-form fiction
essayists · historians · journalists · fiction writers · technical writers
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