Lyric+poem
51complaint — A complaint is a genre of lyric poem in which a speaker bemoans his own lot or the general condition of society. The late Middle Ages saw four different varieties of complaint: In one type the speaker lamented the depravity of the world or of… …
52Li Qingzhao — (Li Ch’ing chao) (ca. 1084–ca. 1151) Li Qingzhao was the most important woman poet of medieval China and the outstanding composer of CI (tz’u) poetry a genre of lyric poem that put new words to old song tunes. She was a scholar, an aristocrat …
53Mihail Sadoveanu — Sadoveanu redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Sadoveanu (surname). Mihail Sadoveanu Sadoveanu in 1929, portrait by Ştefan Dimitrescu Born November 5, 1880( …
54madrigal — madrigalesque, adj. madrigalian /mad reuh gal ee euhn, gal yeuhn, gay lee euhn/, adj. /mad ri geuhl/, n. 1. a secular part song without instrumental accompaniment, usually for four to six voices, making abundant use of contrapuntal imitation,… …
55Truth — (Balade de Bon Conseyl) by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1386) The lyric poem Truth, also called the Balade de bon conseyl or the “Ballade of Good Counsel,” is one of CHAUCER’s so called “Boethian” lyrics, a set of short poems concerned with moral… …
56verse form — noun a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines • Syn: ↑poem • Hypernyms: ↑literary composition, ↑literary work • Hyponyms: ↑abecedarius, ↑Alcaic, ↑ …
57epode — /ep ohd/, n. 1. Class. Pros. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one. 2. the part of a lyric ode following the strophe and antistrophe and composing with them a triadic unit. [1590 1600; < L …
58Ḥāfeẓ — or Ḥāfiẓ orig. Muḥammad Shams al Dīn Ḥāfiẓ born 1325/26, Shīrāz, Iran died 1389/90, Shīrāz Persian poet. The recipient of a traditional religious education (ḥāfiẓ designates someone who has learned the Qurʾān by heart), he served as court poet to …
59Chagatai literature — the body of written works produced in Chagatai, a classical Turkic literary language of Central Asia. Chagatai literature took shape after the conversion of the Mongol Golden Horde to Islam, a process completed under the 14th century… …
60Borys Lyatoshynsky — Infobox Musical artist Name = Borys Lyatoshynsky Img capt = Borys Lyatoshynsky Img size = Landscape = Background = non performing personnel Born = OldStyleDate|January 3|1895|Dec. 22, 1984 Died = Death date and age|1968|05|15|1895|01|03 Origin =… …
