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LYRIC POETRY is commonly understood to be that kind of poetry which is composed in order to musical recitation; but the epithet has been transferred to all kinds of verse partaking in any degree of the same nature as that to which it was first applied. Thus we hear of lyrical ballads, the greater part of which might with as great propriety be called epical, and of lyric measures in Horace where there is no ground to suppose that they were sung, and no fitness for the purpose of musical rehearsal. In a former article [EPIC POETRY] a distinction has been made between epic and lyric poetry more satisfactory than common language allows. There is no impropriety in giving a decided meaning to words which have usually been understood in a confused sense, particularly when, as in the present case, the same senses have been applied to each, so as not only to confuse, but to confound them. Lyric poetry may, then, be defined as that class of poetry which has reference to and is engaged in delineating the composer's own thoughts and feelings, in distinction from epic poetry, which details external circumstances and events. The former is therefore called subjective, and the latter objective.
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The National Encyclopædia:
A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by Writers
of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art.
Vol. VIII. London: Mackenzie o.J. [1868], Sp. 679-680.
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