Lyric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used...or elegy. In early Greek poetry a distinction was made between...Renaissance and later, lyric poetry achieved its most finished form...Emerson, Whitman, Longfellow, Lanier, and Emily Dickinson. Among...