Editing Lyric poetry (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Benjamin Haydon]]'s 1842 portrait of [[William Wordsworth]].]]
In Europe, the lyric emerged as the principal poetic form of the 19th&nbsp;century and came to be seen as synonymous with poetry.<ref name=Murray-2004>
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 |first=Christopher John |last=Murray
 |year=2004
 |title=Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850
 |publisher=Taylor & Francis
 |page=700
 |isbn=1-57958-422-5
}}
</ref>
[[Romantic poetry|Romantic]] lyric poetry consisted of first-person accounts of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment; the feelings were extreme but personal.<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=Stephen |last=Bygrave
 |year=1996
 |title=Romantic Writings
 |page=ix
 |publisher=Routledge
 |isbn=0-415-13577-X
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The traditional [[sonnet]] was revived in Britain, with [[William Wordsworth]] writing more sonnets than any other British poet.<ref name=Murray-2004/> Other important Romantic lyric writers of the period include [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[John Keats]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], and [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]]. Later in the century, the [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] lyric was more linguistically self-conscious and defensive than the Romantic forms had been.<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=E. Warwick |last=Slinn
 |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last=Bristow
 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
 |date=26 October 2000
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |page=56
 |isbn=0-521-64680-4
}}
</ref>
Such Victorian lyric poets include [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]] and [[Christina Rossetti]].

Lyric poetry was popular with the German reading public between 1830 and 1890, as shown in the number of poetry anthologies published in the period.<ref>
{{cite book
 |first1=Eda   |last1=Sagarra
 |first2=Peter |last2=Skrine
 |year=1997
 |title=A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the present
 |page=149
 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing
 |isbn=0-631-21595-6
}}
</ref>
According to [[Georg Lukács]], the verse of [[Joseph von Eichendorff]] exemplified the German Romantic revival of the [[folk-song]] tradition initiated by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Johann Gottfried Herder|Herder]], and [[Achim von Arnim|Arnim]] and [[Clemens Brentano|Brentano]]'s ''[[Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]''.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=Lukács |first=György
 |title=German Realists in the Nineteenth Century
 |page=56
 |publisher=MIT Press
 |place=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
 |year=1993
 |isbn=0-262-62143-6
}}
</ref>

France also saw a revival of the lyric voice during the 19th century.<ref name=Prendergast-1990>
{{cite book
 |last=Prendergast |first=Christopher
 |year=1990
 |title=Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to close reading
 |page=3
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |place=[[Cambridge, England]]
 |isbn=0-521-34774-2
}}
</ref>
The lyric became the dominant mode of French poetry during this period.<ref name=Prendergast-1990/>{{rp|page=15}}
For [[Walter Benjamin]], [[Charles Baudelaire]] was the last example of lyric poetry "successful on a mass scale" in Europe.<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=Pensky |last=Max
 |year=1993
 |title=Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the ''Play of Mourning''
 |page=155
 |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Press]]
 |place=[[Boston, Massachusetts]]
 |isbn=1-55849-296-8
}}
</ref>

In [[Russian Empire|Russia]], [[Aleksandr Pushkin]] exemplified a rise of lyric poetry during the 18th and early 19th&nbsp;centuries.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=Jakobson |first=Roman
 |title=Selected Writings
 |page=282
 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter
 |year=1981
 |isbn=90-279-7686-4
}}
</ref>
The Swedish "Phosphorists" were influenced by the Romantic movement and their chief poet [[Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom]] produced many lyric poems.<ref>
{{cite book
 |author1=Richardson, W.
 |display-authors=etal
 |title=Literature of the World: An introductory study'
 |page=348
 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing
 |year=2005
 |isbn=1-4179-9433-9
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</ref>
Italian lyric poets of the period include [[Ugo Foscolo]], [[Giacomo Leopardi]], [[Giovanni Pascoli]], and [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]]. Spanish lyric poets include [[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], [[Rosalía de Castro]], and [[José de Espronceda]]. Catalan lyric poets include [[Jacint Verdaguer]], and [[Miquel Costa i Llobera]]. Japanese lyric poets include [[Taneda Santoka]], [[Masaoka Shiki]], and [[Ishikawa Takuboku]].