lyrist
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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
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
When Professor Boyesen visited Hugo some ten years ago he found that the great French lyrist had never heard of Emerson.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
He was, without compeer, the greatest pastoral lyrist of Denmark.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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