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The nine lyric poets (nine melic poets) were a canon of archaic Greek composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
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.

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The nine lyric poets (nine melic poets) were a canon of archaic Greek composer

Composer

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Alcman
Alcman

Alcman was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the nine lyric poets....
(choral lyric, seventh century BC)
Sappho
Sappho

Sappho...
(monodic lyric, c. 600 BC)
Alcaeus (monodic lyric, c. 600 BC)
Anacreon (monodic lyric, sixth century BC)
Stesichorus
Stesichorus

Stesichorus was a Ancient Greece lyric poetry from Himera in Sicily, one of the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of study....
(choral lyric, sixth century BC)
Ibycus
Ibycus

Ibycus , of Rhegium in Italy, was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet. He was included in the canon list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria....
(choral lyric, sixth century BC)
Simonides
Simonides of Ceos

Simonides of Ceos , Greek Lyric poetry poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea . He was included, along with Sappho and Pindar, in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria....
(choral lyric, sixth century BC)
Pindar
Pindar

Pindar , was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is by far the best preserved, and critics in antiquity tended to regard him as the greatest....
(choral lyric, fifth century BC)
Bacchylides
Bacchylides

Bacchylides was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides....
(choral lyric, fifth century BC)

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

Elegy

An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive Poetry#Elegy, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead....
and the iambus.

The poetry of these poets is traditionally divided into choral poetry and monodic lyric

Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry refers to a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. Aristotle, in Poetics , contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic poetry....
. This division is, however, contested by some modern scholars.

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