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
At the same time his verse is studded with fiery beauties and sudden felicities of language, unsurpassed by any lyrist between his own time and Shelley’s.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
"What are they?" one who knows Mr. Carman only as, say, a lyrist of spring or as a singer of the delights of vagabondia probably will ask in some wonder.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
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 Oscar Wilde
