Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poem
Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme schem
Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before
This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of
What was the medieval English lyric? Moving beyond the received understanding of the genre, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric explores, through analysis, dis