This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life.
Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most important forms of medieval literature.
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The volume introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English poetry and includes 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 ...
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.
Edited by Guido Maria Dreves, Clemens Blume, and Henry Marriott Bannister. 55 vols. Leipzig, Germany: Fues, 1886–90 (vols. 1–8); Reisland, 1890–1922 (vols. 9–55). Vol. 50, ed. Dreves and Blume, 1907; Vol. 51, ed. Blume, 1908; Vol.
Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.
Olson prefers to discuss " certain aspects of late medieval lyric theory which will suggest how these works seem to have ... lyrics in the Middle Ages generally expressed little interest in their historical or theoretical significance .
Finally, the collection examines cultural change at the close of the medieval period and the variety of literature produced in the ‘long fifteenth century’, including writing by and for women, Scots poetry, clerical and courtly works, ...
This work is a treatment of over thirty Old English lyrics including prayers, riddles, charms, the epilogues to Cynewulf's four signed poems, lyric interludes from Beowulf, and poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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