Abstract
AbstractTaking ancient Greek lyric and its musical performance as a starting‐point, this essay considers the creative potential of modulation, the skilful deploying of dynamic and tonal effects in poetry. It argues that poets of the period from 1660 to 1740 found in the Classical tradition a range of contrasting lyric modes that could be varied and combined in inventive ways. From this perspective it is also possible to appreciate how the period's satiric writing exploits the more flexible and responsive elements of the lyrist's skill, its modal creativity. In this period, lyric and satire are closer together than we might think.
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