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

The great master thereof in the early Renaissance, the lyrist, if I may use the word, of the fifteenth century, is of course Botticelli.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

A skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to delight.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay

Simonides is the first Greek lyrist whose significance is not merely Aeolian or Dorian but Panhellenic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various