Thank you David for the examples --I think I can now understand the shift in
definition and form. The notion of the analytic lyric or -illyric-- is
fascinating. I have been reading Palgrave's "Golden Treasury of Songs and
Lyrics " and he wrote in his 1861 Preface:
The Editor is acquainted with no strict and exhaustive definition of Lyrical
poetry; but he has found the task of practical decision increase in
clearness and in facility as he advanced with the work whilst keeping in
view a few simple principles. Lyrical has been here held essentially to
imply that each Poem shall turn on some single thought, feeling or
situation. In accordance with this, narrative, descriptive, and didactic
poems, --unless accompanied by rapidity of movement, brevity, and the
colouring of human passion, --have been excluded.
One might contrast this definition and the conditions for lyric with the
contemporary aversion to "colouring of human passion" and "musicality".
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