LYRICISM • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Lyricism

... also that of the Reformation it was only natural a determined effort should sooner or later be made to use poetry for religious purposes. The earliest English hymn writing, our first devotional verse in the vernacular, belongs to this time, and a Catholic and religious school of lyricism grew and flourished beside the pagan neo-classical writers. From the tumult of experiment three schools disengage themselves, the school of Spenser, the school of Jonson, and ...

— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair

... they like, Saint-Antoine is a masterpiece, a magnificent book. Ridicule the critics, they are blockheads. The present century does not like lyricism. Let us wait for the reaction, it will come for you, and a splendid one. Rejoice in your insults, they are ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert