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
A skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to delight.
From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay
Ramsay, according to this basis of distinction, was, as has been said, rather a song-writer than a lyrist.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
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 Wilde, Oscar
