Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Lyrical Quotations

After all, lyrical poetry's main concern is to express, inc this way, a fleeting constellation of various elements.

Because lyrical poetry was still relatively new; it only first emerged with Klopstock, or, if you will, you might go back to Gryphius. This was a completely new mode of expression. It emerged, at the very latest, during the Enlightenment.