As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.

Discusses Greek lyric poetry, focusing on its emotional depth and the techniques used by poets like Cicus and Sappho to convey complex feelings through word harmony, rhythm, and vivid imagery. It ...

“Lyric poetry in the Western tradition was called lyric poetry because at one point it was performed with a lyre,” explained poet Charif Shanahan, who teaches at Northwestern and just received ...

She built up the terrain of lyric poetry — making it new while singing its deep past," said poet Tess Taylor. "The poems struggled with beauty. There was a huge daring in them." ...

Nearly 38 years after Professor Frank D'Souza, the first head of the department of English at Siddharth College, Mumbai, left a manuscript on 'lyric poetry', his daughter Dr Daphne D'Souza Pillai ...

LUNENBURG — The community is invited to listen to beautiful old poems, set to music, and discuss the features that make them singable with a hands-on exploration of lyric poetry — the kind ...

His book Lyric Poetry takes you through a journey of understanding the strength and lyricism that can be achieved with the written word without music, along with the importance and beauty of this ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

He argues that lyric poetry, by nature, asks to be learned by heart, but also, “I call a poem that very thing that teaches the heart, invents the heart, that which, finally, the word heart seems ...