lyric poetry

type of poetry that expresses an intense thought
Intangible literary_genre Q182357
lyric poetry
Artist is Henry Oliver Walker (1843–1929). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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lyric poetry

Summary

lyric poetry is a literary genre[1]. It draws 864 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #69 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • lyric poetry's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • lyric poetry's instance of is recorded as literary mode[4].
  • lyric poetry's genre is lyricism[5].
  • lyric poetry is a type of poetry[6].
  • lyric poetry is a type of lyricism[7].
  • lyric poetry's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lyric poetry[8].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[13].
  • lyric poetry's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[14].
  • lyric poetry's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'el', 'text': 'λυρικός'}[15].
  • lyric poetry's different from is recorded as lyricism[16].
  • lyric poetry's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Poetry[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include literary genre[3] and literary mode[4]. Recorded subclass of include poetry[6] and lyricism[7].

Why It Matters

lyric poetry draws 864 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #69 of 487).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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