Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins University. They are printed as they were delivered, with the exception of a few slight changes. The subjects taken up are the distinctive qualities of the Greek race as expressed by Homer, Greek poetry, both epic and lyric, the Attic drama, and the permanent power of Greek poetry. A separate lecture is also devoted to a discussion of Pindar's style and his relation to epic and lyric poetry...
...revival of the German heroic legends. The 12 century saw also the Celtic legends, which had come to be in Northern France the chief vehicles for conveying chivalric ideas, pass into Germany and became highly attractive to the Germans. Soon after narrative poetry after French models began in Germany, lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems to have appeared first along the upper Rhine, and at once showed itself subjective, metaphysical, chivalric. It had, however, from the start a purely German sentimental strain. The weariness and disenchantment of Walther...
...century later than the earliest French literature of moment. In the very earliest monument of Spanish, poetry that has come down to us, the Poem of the Cid, we see plainly the influence of French models, as least upon form. And this impression is strengthened by the earliest lyric poetry. Accordingly, it is certain that the influence of France and Provence determined the earliest literary productions of the Spaniards. The same was true in other arts. Yet the matter of the earliest Spanish poem, (the Poem of Cid), is distinctly not French. It gives us a type of manners...
...Walhalla" is a warlike lyric of the old Norse mythological days. The poem mirrors well the rough poetry and god-strength of the life depicted. "Age and Youth" by J. T. Stickney is, curiously enough, a poetical expression of certain ideas which Charles Dudley Warner gave vent to in the last Harper's. The poem - for it is a poem, rather than mere verse - shows promise...