Middle English Lyrics

Middle English Lyrics
Author: Maxwell Luria
Publisher: Norton Critical Editions
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1974
Genre: Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN:

An anthology of 245 Middle English lyrics that includes modernized punctuation, capitalization, and obsolete letters, making the text easier to read and understand.

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.

Middle English Marian Lyrics

Middle English Marian Lyrics
Author: Karen Saupe
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1580444156

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.

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.

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 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.

Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric

Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric
Author: Douglas Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 042959075X

Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.

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.

Middle English Literature

Middle English Literature
Author: George Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429582706

Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is without artistic value and therefore cannot be compared effectively with later works of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. While traditional analysis has been beneficial to scientific and historical findings, this text seeks to look deeper into the artistic merits of the works and the authors that wrote them, arguing that the authors of these Middle English texts, wrote with the same motivations and experiences of these later authors which in turn informed the artistic basis of these Middle English works. The book looks at Middle English texts through three main areas: the Metrical Romances, the Religious Lyrics and Piers Plowman.