Poetry was practiced intensely after midcentury, in reaction to neorealism, by a generation of diverse lyric poets that included Manuel Alegre, António Ramos Rosa, and Rui Knopfli.
In his review for Time magazine, Christopher John Farley said that the album's music is elegant and more innovative than their previous albums, while Los Angeles Times writer Connie Johnson was impressed by its diverse music, quirky lyrics, and musical segues.
The College Dropout diverged from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop in favor of more diverse, topical subjects for the lyrics.
This affectionate tribute to Ireland's literary and lyric traditions features works by composers as diverse as Beethoven and Berlioz, Britten and Arnold Bax, and lyrics by Yeats and Joyce, among many others.
A founding member of the Flying Lizards (an 80's New Wave combo), she has written lyrics for musicians as diverse as Massive Attack and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The album's lyrics deal with a diverse set of subjects, such as the death of rural communities, old school teachers, and Sarn Helen (a Roman road built in Wales).
The blend of humorous contes, hymnody, and lyric testifies to a diverse taste in the unknown anthologist.
Lyric songs are a diverse category that consist of lullabies, serenades and work songs, and are frequently improvised though based on a traditional repertoire.
We think of John Lennon as the most intellectual of the Beatles, but, in fact, Paul McCartney's lyrics had more flexible and diverse structures and George Harrison's were more cognitively complex.
Linda's lyrics have also been recorded by such diverse artists as The Backstreet Boys, Kenny Rogers, Air Supply, Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, Aaron Neville, Art Garfunkcle, Patty LaBelle, and even the Russian Red Army Choir.
