This chapter examines the genre of lyric poetry, focusing on one particular aspect of that genre — the convention of the muse. The love lyric directed at the beloved muse has a lengthy tradition, from Sappho and Catullus to Petrarch, through Shakespeare, Sidney and Donne, and into the 18th...
Euterpe was one of the nine Muses, the goddesses of music, song and dance. In the Classical era, when the Muses were assigned specific literary and artistic spheres, Euterpe was named Muse of lyric poetry. Her attribute was the double-flute. Euterpe's na
Meaning "inspiring goddess of a particular poet" (with a lower-case m-) is from late 14c. The traditional names and specialties of the nine Muses are: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (love poetry, lyric art), Euterpe (music, especially flute), Melpomene (tragedy), ...
This article addresses a second problem of interpretation: the song was clearly intended for two voices, but the primary voice is missing, leaving us only with the second voice, the polyphonic accompaniment. Using the principles of medieval English polyphony, author Ian Pittaway has constructed thre...
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Euterpe is considered to be the muse who is responsible for music, song, and lyric poetry. In Ancient Greece, all three of these things were usually linked. As a result, she was always associated with the Aulos, a musical instrument popular in Ancient Greece that resembles a flute. The pa...
The rhythmic and melodious language pattern has given Salomé“an aria-like singing” (Guan, 2009, p. 86), and indeed Wilde himself claimed that he wrote Salomé as a piece of lyric poetry. In addition to its classical style by modeling the Greek tragedies, Salomé was also reckoned as a...
Polyhymnia is the Greek muse of sacred song and lyric poetry, and the inventor of the lyre and harmony. Her name literally means "(singing) many songs," so it's an appropriate name for a universal disc player. The Muse Polyhymnia (as opposed to the muse Polyhymnia) is one of Muse's ...
who used word forms which corrupt the rhythm) achieved the great feat of retaining the original rhyme scheme. To do so he created his own imagery from the story rather than mirroring every word in the Latin. Some of the new elements in the Middle English verses make beautiful poetry. The ...
three hours of snatched sleep a day. Sundays she allowed her self four waking hours, to wash her two dresses , clean her room, and write letters home along wiht her poetry. The rest she spent sleeping, or shopping in the witches’ market for the herbal teas that kept her from running ...