Occasional poetry
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Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance, and patronage.
Goethe said that "Occasional Poetry is the highest kind" (Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786)
1669 occasional sonnet printed in Urbino
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
Occasional poetry
…given set of genre conventions to commemorate single events or anniversaries, such as birthdays, foundings, or dedications. Occasional poetry is often lyric because it originates as performance, in antiquity and into the 16th century even with musical accompaniment; at the same time, because performance…
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.