Note 3 — II. OBJECTIONS TO RECOGNIZING ITS LITERARY CHARACTER

“There is an inclination to fence in what are called ‘literary lyrics,’ as if to fence out singing lyrics! Now there is, of course, a distinction between poems meant to be sung and poems written in the pattern of lyrical poetry, but never meant to be sung; but the terminology which classes one kind as literary, thereby implying that the other kind is not of the realm of literature, is inaccurate and unhappy.” Ibid.