“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)
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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
Daniel Levitin book The World in Six Songs
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”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
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.”
Masiela Lusha (1985) Albanian actress, writer, author
LaGuardia, Gina (October 2004). "Masiela's Musings". College Bound Teen (USA): p. 2.
“Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.”
Dick Higgins (1938–1998) English composer and poet
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.”
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer
Quoted in Poetry Review 26 Sept 1935
Prose
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
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.”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch