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Madrigal (Italian: madrigale) is the name of a form of poetry the exact nature of which has never been decided in English.The definition given in the New English Dictionary a short lyrical poem of amatory character offers no distinctive formula; some madrigals are long and many have nothing whatever to do with love. The most important English collection of madrigals not set to music was published by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) in his Poems of 1616.