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Definition of Aeolian lyre
1. Noun. A harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeolian Lyre
Literary usage of Aeolian lyre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, Books I.-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"This note was added in correction of the mistake made by one of Gray's reviewers
who confused the "aeolian lyre" with the instrument known as "the Aeolian ..."
2. Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics by Francis Turner Palgrave, John Henry Fowler (1903)
"This note was added in correction of the mistake made by one of Gray's reviewers
who confused the "aeolian lyre" with the instrument known as "the Aeolian ..."
3. Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and Burns by John Dryden, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Charles Swain Thomas (1913)
"1 aeolian lyre: Mr. Hales in his Longer English Poems warns the reader against
... aeolian lyre may, therefore, be taken as the equivalent of lyric poetry. ..."
4. Palgrave's The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1915)
"St. 1, aeolian lyre: Pindar calls his poetry "Aeolian" songs. The Greeks called
lyric poetry Aeolian because two of their greatest lyric poets lived in ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... regius professor of Greek at Cambridge, who mistook the "aeolian lyre" invoked
in the first line of The Progress for the instrument invented by Oswald, ..."
6. Star-names and Their Meanings by Richard Hinckley Allen (1899)
"... great aeolian lyre, Rising through all its sevenfold bars, From earth unto
the fixed stars. Still it has been shown with but six, and a vacant space for ..."
7. Music (1898)
"“I saw, with its celestial keys, Its chords of air, Its frets of fire, The Samians'
great aeolian lyre Rising through all its sevenfold bars From Earth unto ..."
8. A Handbook of Latin Poetry: Containing Selections from Ovid, Virgil, and edited by James Hobbs Hanson, William James Rolfe (1865)
"... Sappho complaining on the aeolian lyre of the maidens of her country. Some of
Sappho's poetry, of which fragments remain, is addressed to her young ..."
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