NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT LYRICS

A lyrist within the Standard of Ur, c. 2500 BC The phrase lyric derives via Latin lyricus from the Greek λυρικός (lurikós),[1] the adjectival type of lyre.[two] It to start with appeared in English from the mid-16th century in reference on the Earl of Surrey's translations of Petrarch and to his own sonnets.[3] Greek lyric poetry had bee