The Secular Lyric in Middle English

The Secular Lyric in Middle English
Author: Arthur Keister Moore
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1935
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The scholar of this work has attempted to frame a comprehensive view of medieval secular lyrics, an attempt which includes discussion of songs of satire and protest and the art lyric.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Companion to the Middle English Lyric

A Companion to the Middle English Lyric
Author: Thomas Gibson Duncan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843840650

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.

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: 271
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 042958881X

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.