Maria Rosa Menocal's Shards of Love: Exile and Origins of the Lyric
traces the origins of lyric poetry back to pre-1492 Anadalusia and a popular song-form called the muwashshashat, which "enacted lovers' dialogues using rhyme, a device never before used in Arabic, Hebrew, or Latin" and paired with with a refrain written in an oral dialect
hypothesized to be the generator of the sonnet form, and, indeed, "the contemporary Western lyric poem"
> from Lisa Robertson's Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias (2020)
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