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( Nine lyric poets)
The nine lyric poets (nine melic poets) were a canon of archaic Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. They were In most Greek sources the word, melikos, is used (from melos "song"), but some authors have, lyrikos, which eventually becomes the regular word in Latin (lyricus) and in the modern languages. The ancient scholars defined the genre on the basis of the metrical form, not the content. Thus some types of poetry which would be included under the label, lyric, in modern literary criticism are nevertheless excluded, namely the elegy and the iambus.
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