Lyric Tactics

Lyric Tactics
Author: Ingrid Nelson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812248791

In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational.