Word: lyrically
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...LYRIC POEMS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, in Dent's Lyric Poets...
...LYRIC POEMS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, in Dent's Lyric Poets...
...Sargent Prize of one hundred dollars is offered each year for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace...
...poems of Bacchylides, which were discovered in Egypt in January, 1897, have just been published by the British Museum. Bacchylides, who is thus brought to our notice, was a contemporary and rival of Pindar and was considered by the Alexandrian critics as one of the nine greatest Greek lyric poets. Unfortunately his writings have been completely lost for fourteen hundred years and our knowledge of him has been confined to a few fragments quoted by other writers. By the discovery of this papyrus, however, which dates from 50 B. C., twenty poems of 1070 lines have been restored...
...hackneyed subject in an interesting way. Although in one or two places he is a trifle unreal, as a whole the story is successful and readable. The consideration of Stevenson's work deals with the striking characteristic of that author,- his vividness of style. As the author says, "Vitality, lyric, treatment of incident, 'epic value of scenes'- these were the qualities Stevenson could best appreciate in other authors, and most sought to introduce into his own writings...