THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LYRICS

A lyrist on the conventional of Ur, c. 2500 BC The phrase lyric derives through Latin lyricus from the Greek λυρικός (lurikós),[one] the adjectival sort of lyre.[2] It very first appeared in English from the mid-16th century in reference into the Earl of Surrey's translations of Petrarch and to his own sonnets.[3] Greek lyric poetry were