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Updated: July 26, 2025
Yet a lyrist like Keats, it must be remembered, betrayed his personality not so much through any external peculiarity of the Romantic temperament as through the actual texture of his word and phrase and rhythm.
He remained in the field until the army went into winter-quarters after the battles of Trenton and Princeton. It was not as a combatant that Paine did the States good service. He played the part of Tyraetus in prose, an adaptation of the old Greek lyrist to the eighteenth century and to British America, and cheered the soldiers, not with songs, but with essays, continuations of "Common Sense."
But his speech was all of that wingless insect which "gets there, all the same," according to an American lyrist; the insect which fills Mrs Carlyle's letters with bulletins of her success or failure in domestic campaigns.
In their clean-cut, abrupt, epigrammatic force there is something different from the work of any other musical lyrist.
Nor does it charm with its music; there is vigor and sweep and swing, but the subtler elements of melodious verse are lacking. These qualities of the youthful Schiller's poetry foretell that he will never be a great lyrist, but they promise well enough for the poetic tale.
The first is a description of Shelley himself following Byron and Moore the "Pilgrim of Eternity," and Ierne's "sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong" to the couch where Keats lies dead.
Even lyric poetry is estimated by its fervor and by its sincerity rather than by the dulcet phrases in which the lyrist has voiced his emotion of the moment. If verbal felicity alone is all that the poet needs, if he is to be judged only by the compelling melody of the words he has chosen to set in array, then is Poe the foremost of lyrists.
She did not love; her fancy was fickle; she was not moved by long service, which, by the way, was evidently to be taken for granted precisely like the whole long past of a dream. She had not a good temper. When the poet groans it seems that she has laughed at him; when he flouts her, we may understand that she has chidden her lyrist in no temperate terms.
The opposite shores drew nearer to each other, and finally the spires of Helsingborg, on the Swedish shore, and the square mass of Kronborg Castle, under the guns of which the Sound dues have been so long demanded, appeared in sight. In spite of its bare, wintry aspect, the panorama was charming. Yet here, again, I must find fault with Campbell, splendid lyrist as he is.
The popular young lyrist, ballader and minstrel, for Nadaud accompanied himself on the piano, now made a curious compact, agreeing to write songs for twenty years, a firm named Heugel paying him six thousand francs yearly by way of remuneration. Two hundred and forty pounds a year should seem enough for a young man, a bachelor brought up in bourgeois simplicity.
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