“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)
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Ingeborg Glier, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 184.
Praise
The World in Six Songs (2008)
Context: Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality.... that is a feature of the musical brain.
“Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged”
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), F. P. Ramsey, p. 296
Originally published in The Economic Journal, March 1930. and The New Statesman and Nation, October 3, 1931
“Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.”
LaGuardia, Gina (October 2004). "Masiela's Musings". College Bound Teen (USA): p. 2.
“Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.”
The Origin of Happenings (1976)
Variant: Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry.
“There is an inevitable connection between music and poetry.”
Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
Prose
To the Public, plate 3 (the last paragraph)
1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)
Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843) in "Introduction" to, King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden. p. 3; Introduction; Cited in: James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1852), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 198
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
Source: Middlemarch