“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.
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“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Ingeborg Glier, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 184.
Praise
“One man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”
John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971) American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1899-1971)
Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
Jan Zwicky (1955) Canadian philosopher
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)