Lyric

apostrophic asserted ation attempt Auden audience ballad Campion celebrated century characteristic classical Cole Porter contemporary context conventional critical defined definition of lyric Denise Levertov diction distinction Donald Davie Donne Donne's dramatic Drayton eighteenth Eliot English epigram example experience Faber feeling first-person speaker formal free verse function gesture Herbert hymn imagist individual John Fuller kinds language lines literary Literature London love elegy lover lyric genres lyric poems lyric poetry means meditation metres metrical modulation musical setting narrative passionate pattern Pindar play poem's poet poet's poetic rhythm possible praise precisely present problems reader relationship religious lyric Renaissance lyric Reprinted by permission rhetorical rhythmic Romantic Romantic poetry Seamus Heaney sense sequence Sidney significance song sonnet speak speech stanza forms structure subgenres subject-matter sung term thou topoi troubadour voice W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Wordsworth writing written You're the top