A Companion to the Middle English Lyric
A Companion to the Middle English Lyric

Author: Thomas Gibson Duncan

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1843840650

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Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem
The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem

Author: Rosemary Greentree

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9780859916219

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This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.

Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400
Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400

Author: Thomas Gibson Duncan

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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This is a new edition and selection of the corpus of anonymous medieval English lyrics, drawing on love lyrics, devotional and moral lyrics and miscellaneous secular lyrics. All the texts are presented in their original forms (rather than translated into modern English, as has previously been the case with Penguin publication of these works), freshly edited from the original and normalized to accord with late 14th century London dialect.

Middle English Marian Lyrics
Middle English Marian Lyrics

Author: Karen Saupe

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1580444156

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Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels. The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone, and aesthetic quality in how they relate the iconic moments from Mary's life-the Annunciation, Nativity, and her experience of Christ's passion, for instance-as well as in their variety of praises for the Queen of Heaven. Taken together, the poems express the full range of a people's effort to voice anxieties and joys through Mary. This collection will spark an excellent discussion on English spirituality, Marian devotion, and Middle English lyrical poetry.

The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne

Author: Douglas L. Peterson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1400877342

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The author rejects C.S. Lewis's theory of a "Drab" and a “Golden” school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradition and of a plain or contemplative tradition. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

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Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1580445225

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An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales's Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.

Chaucer and the Subject of History
Chaucer and the Subject of History

Author: Lee Patterson

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780299128340

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Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.