As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.

Peter Hühn Facing Loss and Death: Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry With contrib. by Goerke, Britta / Plooy, Heilna du / Schenk-Haupt, Stefan Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, coll. "Narratologia", ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of ...

Casie LeGette, The Lyric Speaker Goes to Gaol: British Poetry and Radical Prisoners, 1820–1845, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 67, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 1-28 ...

In many cultures--Chinese, for example--the lyric is inalterably the basic unit of poetry. In English-speaking countries, though, many poets at work in the lingering shadow of modernism aspire to ...

Sandwiched between epic poetry and the birth of philosophy and history, Greek lyric poetry is an unduly neglected literary repository in the Western canon. It's time to change this. Here is an ...

Tom Payne enters the world of contemporary poetry, as envisaged in Fiona Sampson's Beyond the Lyric.

The purpose of this essay is double-to counter Mikhail Bakhtin's contention that all poetry is necessarily monologic and therefore unethical (and, in doing so, to challenge also common assumptions ...

Discusses Greek lyric poetry, focusing on its emotional depth and the techniques used by poets like Cicus and Sappho to convey complex feelings through word harmony, rhythm, and vivid imagery. It ...