Translation for 'lyric poetry' from English to Russian

lyric poetry

лирика {ж}лит.

лирическая поэзия {ж}лит.

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poetry

поэзия {ж}лит.

• In his work "Poetics", Aristotle defines an epic as one of the forms of poetry, contrasted with lyric poetry and with drama in the form of tragedy and comedy.
• In Ancient Greece, recitations of lyric poetry were accompanied by lyre playing.
• Pindar worked on lyric poetry. The largest part of his surviving works is the Victory Odes (Epinikia), chorus songs to be sung in the homeland of the winner of the Games upon his return.
• Simonides composed verses almost entirely for public performances and inscriptions, unlike previous lyric poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed more intimate verses to entertain friends—"With Simonides the age of individualism in lyric poetry has passed."
• In late Classical times, she was named muse of lyric poetry.

• Erato (top, the Muse of lyric poetry), Rhome (bottom left, meaning strength) and Sophia (bottom right, meaning wisdom), their names are in Greek.
• was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).
• Between the years 1823 and 1828, Leopardi set aside lyric poetry in order to compose his prose magnum opus, "Operette morali" ("Small Moral Works"), which consists (in its final form) of a series of 24 innovative dialogues and fictional essays treating a variety of themes that had already become familiar to his work by then.
• Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music.
• is a type of lyric poetry. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

• In the Middle Ages, Galician-Portuguese was the language used in nearly all of Iberia for lyric poetry.
• The birth of lyric poetry in Latin occurred during the same period.