Lyric
- late 12th century Lais by Marie de France
- 1140s-1150s Goliardic poetry by Hugh Primas of Orléans
- 1160s Goliardic poetry by the Archpoet
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Famous quotes containing the word lyric:
“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)
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“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”
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