单词 | lyric stage |
释义 | > as lemmaslyric stage 1. Of or pertaining to the lyre; adapted to the lyre, meant to be sung; pertaining to or characteristic of song. Now used as the name for short poems (whether or not intended to be sung), usually divided into stanzas or strophes, and directly expressing the poet's own thoughts and sentiments. Hence, applied to the poet who composes such poems. lyric drama, lyric stage, the opera. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [adjective] lyricala1586 lyric1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xi. 20 They were called..Lirique Poets. 1664 J. Dryden Rival Ladies Ded. sig. A4 This sweetness of Mr. Wallers Lyrick Poesie was afterwards follow'd in the Epick by Sir John Denham. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 254 Æolian charms and Dorian Lyric Odes. View more context for this quotation a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 59 Terpander was a Lyric Poet. 1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 305 Quatrains of lines, alternately consisting of eight and six syllables, make the most soft and pleasing of our lyrick measures. 1825 W. Ayrton Let. 5 Apr. in J. Ebers Seven Yrs. King's Theatre (1828) 255 Signor Tramezzani,..one of the finest singers and actors that ever graced the lyric stage, took the character of Guglielmo. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xii. 125 The tyrants likewise cherished the lyric Muse. 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 183 Still we hail with undiminished delight the lyric drama. 1849 G. Ticknor Hist. Spanish Lit. III. 8 Herrera is too lyric..to write good elegies. 1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera III. xxxiv. 6 Lyric poetry is the expression by the poet of his own feelings. 1877 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 22 The most exciting situation in lyric drama—the duet in the fourth act of Les Huguenots. 1877 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 28 It requires a faculty for light comedy, which is almost unknown on the lyric stage. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy ii. iii. 38 Poetry which is lyric in spirit as well as in metre. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 526/2 Lyric Drama, another name for opera, covering all kinds. The term is applied not so much to any particular work as to the whole class—i.e. opera as distinct from the spoken play. 1957 Oxf. Compan. Theatre 589/1 Beethoven's..solitary contribution to the lyric stage, ‘Fidelio’ (1805). 1958 A. Jacobs New Dict. Music 218 Lyric drama, occasional synonym for opera (especially in French, as drame lyrique); hence also the lyric stage, i.e. the operatic stage. < as lemmas |
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