Textbook
Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and CarolsISBN: 978-1-4051-1482-0
Paperback
240 pages
September 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems,
carols, and traditional British ballads written between the
thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some
twentieth-century American versions of them.
- A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and
traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and
fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American
versions of them.
- Introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English
poetry.
- Presents poems of mourning and of celebration, poems dedicated
to the Blessed Virgin and to Christ, poems inviting or disparaging
love, poems about sex, and more.
- Reader-friendly - uses modernized letter forms, punctuation and
capitalization, and side glosses explaining difficult words.
- Opens with a substantial introduction by the editor to the
medieval lyric as a genre, and features short introductions to each
section and poem.
- Also includes an annotated bibliography, glossary, index of first lines, and list of manuscripts cited.