Medieval Lyric

Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols

John C Hirsh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:11th Aug '04

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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.
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"A very attractive anthology, notable for its variety and the careful and expert way it has been designed for the use of students."
--Douglas Gray

"Students will particularly value the range of critical material cited."
--Valerie Edden, University of Birmingham, Modern Language Review

ISBN: 9781405114820

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 349g

240 pages