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...
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...
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...
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 ...
MUSE MELANCHOLIA, POETIC REMEDY - STUDIES ON THE MELANCHOLIA THEME IN GERMAN LYRIC POETRY FROM HOLTY TO BENN - GERMAN - VOLKER,Ldoi:10.2307/405667KOEPKE, WGERMAN QUARTERLY
The author discusses the state of lyric poetry in the 20th century and presents his poem "At the Muse's Tomb." Autobiographical poetry, poetics, and the history of literary movements are discussed, as well as the relationship between thought and intention. Lyric poetry is compared with ...
This dissertation, "The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Fourth-Century B.C. Greek Lyric Poetry," gives an overview of the extant 800 lines of lyric poetry composed between 425 B.C. and the end of the classical period. The overarching question my study addresses concerns the ...
This dissertation, "The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Fourth-Century B.C. Greek Lyric Poetry," gives an overview of the extant 800 lines of lyric poetry composed between 425 B.C. and the end of the classical period. The overarching question my study addresses concerns the ...