Medieval English Lyrics and Carols

Medieval English Lyrics and Carols
Author: Thomas Gibson Duncan
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781843843412

A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary.

Medieval English Lyrics

Medieval English Lyrics
Author: Reginald Thorne Davies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1964
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810100756

Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.

Medieval Lyric

Medieval Lyric
Author: John C. Hirsh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470755512

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.

Middle English Lyrics

Middle English Lyrics
Author: Julia Boffey
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843844976

A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem
Author: Rosemary Greentree
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780859916219

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
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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.

Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)

Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)
Author: John the Blind Audelay
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 158044444X

Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.