Definition of Lyricisms

1. lyricism [n] - See also: lyricism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyricisms

lyrelike
lyres
lyric
lyric opera
lyric poem
lyrical
lyricality
lyrically
lyricalness
lyricalnesses
lyricise
lyricised
lyricises
lyricising
lyricism
lyricisms (current term)
lyricist
lyricists
lyricize
lyricized
lyricizes
lyricizing
lyrick
lyricless
lyricon
lyricons
lyrics
lyrid
lyrie
lyriferous

Literary usage of Lyricisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1835)
"In Beaumont and Fletcher it is constantly slipping into lyricisms. ' I believe Shakspeare was not a whit more intelligible in his own day ..."

2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1867)
"To this criticism might be added that it is the blank verse of a scholar—pointed, polished, and free from the lyricisms of his ..."

3. Coleridge's Literary Criticism by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John William Mackail (1908)
"In Beaumont and Fletcher it is constantly slipping into lyricisms. I believe Shakespeare was not a whit more intelligible in his own day, than he is now to ..."

4. A Guide to Russian Literature (1820-1917) by Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1920)
"It is, however, the tortures of a never-satisfied thinker that give his lyricisms their special value. Sometimes he is mocking at himself. ..."

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