Lyric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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LYRIC in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument...more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be...Spencer, and Sidney and in the short poems of Ronsard, Ben Jonson, John Donne...lyrics. Among the best are those of Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats...