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

There is a passage in the De Remediis utriusque Fortunæ, where the lyrist of chivalrous love pours such contempt on women as his friend Boccaccio might have envied.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

"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 Carman, Bliss

She is best as a lyrist, and some of her poems are touched with a very fine and true pathos.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh