(_a_) The content of lyric poetry
[(_α_) Not merely translation of content from immediacy of
experience. Creation of object purified from the incidental
mood. Deliverance thus effected. Self-expression not the
development of objective action. We have the universal as
such. The entire sphere of human belief, religion, art, and
to some extent scientific thought comprised as they fall
into a personal view of the world
(_β_) Aspect of particularity. The Eumenides chorus in the
"Cranes" of Ibicus. The Elegy and Epistle
(_γ_) Emphasis throughout on personal feeling. Parallel with
genre painting. Contingency of content. Growth of whole in
temperament]
(_b_) The form of the same
[(_α_) Unity different from that of Epos. Mysterious
intimacy of personal mood. Approximates to Epos in heroic
songs, ballads, and romances. The Greek Anthology
(_β_) _Poems d'occasion._ Personal aspect. Pindaric Odes.
Goethe. Individual soul supplied focus of unity rather than
positive reality
(_γ_) Point of departure an external occurrence either in
personal experience or that of others. Element of narrative
as in songs of Anacreon]
(_c_) The external culture condition of the Lyric.
[(_α_) Different from that of Epic. Not limited to one
particular epoch, but exceptionally displayed in modern
times. Folk-songs and the lyric poem
(_β_) Possesses a power of free expansion into all kinds of
subject-matter, a free recognition of imaginative conception
no less than artistic activity
(_γ_) The philosophical lyric poem. A false and a genuine
style compared. Schiller's poetry]