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lyric poetry

type of poetry that expresses an intense thought
Intangible literary_genre Q182357
lyric poetry
Artist is Henry Oliver Walker (1843–1929). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

lyric poetry is a literary genre[1]. It draws 4,083 Wikipedia views per month (literary genre category, ranking #69 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: literary mode[3]
  • Genre: lyricism[4]
  • Subclass of: poetry[5], lyricism[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lyric poetry[7]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[12], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[13]
  • Native label: λυρικός[14]
  • Different from: lyricism[15]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Poetry[16]

Why It Matters

lyric poetry has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → lyric-poetry
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: lyric-poetry, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289944220|lyric poetry (#289944220)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2peE6c
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['u0003547-lyricka-poezie', 'h0009844-lyricka-poezie']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: u0003547-lyricka-poezie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 1365, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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