lyrist


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a person who writes the words for songs

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(8) The variety of poetic kinds and modes that Finch used is just one indication of the range of personae that she enlisted, including the Aesopian narrator, the satirist (despite Finch's claims to the contrary), the various Ardelias (often the pastoral poet or playful correspondent but also the poet of melancholy and victim of political oppression), the lyrist, the heroic and the mock-heroic writer, the elegist whose poems usually mourned both the dead and the condition of the state, the devotional poet, biblical paraphraser, and the odist who treated matters of spiritual and political significance (here I include "The Spleen" as such a poem as well as the more obvious examples, such as "All is Vanity" and "Upon the Hurricane").
As a lyrist, Weil has a knack for simple, declarative lyrics that define the spirit of a tough, gritty city for young minds that think in monosyllables.
To complement this remodeling of an older style, Lamb quotes in its entirety Charles Cotton's poem "The New Year." As a cavalier lyrist, Cotton is presumably more passe than even Elia's departed year 1820.
Despite being raised 9lb by the handicapper, Little Italy took command in the straight and cantered over her rivals, beating Lyrist by three and a half lengths.
he is science's only lyrist'.(65) However, when he refashioned his article in 1923, Huxley not only dropped the title's definite article but wrote more expansively about the new physics:
The influence of the Baltimore lyrist, Edward Coote Pinckney, also seems sure.
When the flute-playing faun engages in a musical contest with the lyrist Apollo, the Muses award victory to Apollo, and the god orders the vanquished Marsyas to be hung upon a branch, tortured, and killed.
Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh and lyrist and poet Gulzar are also performing during the festival.
As a great lyrist, Bjornstjerne Bjornson is enormously popular among his readers in Norway.
NEWMARKET: 2.00 Gallant, 2.30 Autonomy, 3.05 Little Rock (nap), 3.40 Eilean Shona, 4.15 Lyrist, 4.45 Major Rebuke, 5.15 Kirk.
Scriptural precedents for Gower as prophet are not far to seek, but who was the lyrist? A reader less well acquainted with Ovid's Fasti than Gower has to wait until the book's final chapter to discover Arion's identity.
Filmmakers Shekhar Kapoor and Subhash Ghai also attended the convocation ceremony along with Oscar winning lyrist Gulzar on Saturday.