As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages. By Lisa Prevost. September 19, 2023.

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 ...

The persistent earnestness of the German poem is one thing. The French lyric may be serious enough, and even sad; but we feel it to be a passing mood, or a mood that surely will pass, in time.

Take the poem “Qualm,” from A SYMMETRY (Norton, 97 pp., $26.95), by Ari Banias:. Patience. Rage and being told “be patient.” The birds with orange heads and dust-colored bodies bob on the ...

“New Day’s Lyric,” the latest work by the poet, was released in a collaboration with Instagram and shares themes with Gorman’s famous poem from the presidential inauguration, “The Hill ...

While avant-garde poetry is usually framed as a nihilist assault against lyric poetry, we can now see that the opposite is true: What is most offensive about avant-gardism is its attempts to bring ...

Lyric poetry is usually understood to be to a kind of compressed, emotional, musical poetry, often contrasted with longer forms where narrative is more central. The tradition of lyric poetry probably ...

Dante’s passion for Beatrice was genuine; accordingly, his lyric poems to her vibrate with sincerity. Fortunately, he was spiritual as well as sincere; and it is of great moment that he, ...