THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO LYRICS

A lyrist within the Standard of Ur, c. 2500 BC The phrase lyric derives through Latin lyricus through the Greek λυρικός (lurikós),[1] the adjectival form of lyre.[2] It very first appeared in English while in the mid-16th century in reference into the Earl of Surrey's translations of Petrarch also to his have sonnets.[3] Greek lyric poet