lyric poet

Anacreon, the lyric poet, was his contemporary, and all his poetry abounds with the praises of Polycrates.

Rightly has Edmond de Goncourt called him a lyric poet, the great poet of the eighteenth century.

Burns was a great lyric poet, whereas we hear of no great epic poet in the age of Pisistratus.

Verhaeren is possibly the only lyric poet who has felt in accordance with contemporary feeling.

A lyric poet, when collecting his pieces, may adopt any one of several different principles of arrangement.