A lyrist over the typical of Ur, c.?2500 BC The word lyric derives by means of Latin lyricus in the Greek ??????? (lurikós),[1] the adjectival type of lyre.[2] It very first appeared in English from the mid-sixteenth century in reference to the Earl of Surrey's translations of Petrarch and also to his possess sonnets.[3] Greek lyric poetry had be… Read More