... the implementation of lyrical libido Sappho, Asclepiades, the writer of Song of Songs, and Philodemus the Epicurean, along with contemporary and modern writers, Donne, Herrick, Yeats, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Tony Hoagland, and Sharon Olds, create a unifying link between disparate worlds and immortalize an otherwise ephemeral aspect of life. Lyric poetry in the western tradition originates approximately in the 17th century B.C.E. (Santos 19). Homer's Iliad established the ... prominence of the epic. Although epic poetry and lyric poetry were cohabitants of ancient literature, epic po...

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