lyric

• For the lyric is the form in which the deepest expression can be given to feeling for Nature, and in which she either appears as background, frame, or ornament, or, by borrowing a soul or symbolizing thought and feeling, blends with the inner life As the German court epics took their material from France, so the German love-songs were inspired by the Provençal troubadours. —  The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
• Being self-contained, the lyric is a harmonious whole, in which the parts may be repeated for emphasis; looking backward and forward, the dramatic utterance is a progressive and incomplete whole, which cannot stay for iteration. —  The Principles of Aesthetics
• First we must consider the commonly accepted opinion that a lyric is an expression of personal emotion, with its implication that there is an essential difference between a lyric and, say, dramatic or narrative poetry. —  The Lyric An Essay
• Let the reader choose at random a dozen lyrics from the _Golden Treasury_, and see how far this orderly arrangement of the thought-stuff of the lyric is approximated in practice. —  A Study of Poetry
• For the lyric is the form in which the deepest expression can be given to feeling for Nature, and in which she either appears as background, frame, or ornament, or, by borrowing a soul or symbolizing thought and feeling, blends with the inner life. —  The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

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