Lyric poetry
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Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry that expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in a first-person narrative. The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics
Lyric Poetry (1896) Henry Oliver Walker, in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building.
Alcaeus and Sappho depicted on an Attic red-figure calathus c. 470 BC
Benjamin Haydon's 1842 portrait of William Wordsworth.
Epic poetry
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In poetry, an epic is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal unive
Lyric poetry
…The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle among three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic, and epic. Lyric poetry is one of the earliest forms of literature. Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on syllable or on stress – two short…
A tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh
A traditional Kyrgyz manaschi performing part of the epic poem at a yurt camp in Karakol
The first edition (1835) of the Finnish national epic poem Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot