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"A very attractive anthology, notable for its variety and the careful and expert way it has been designed for the use of students."
––Douglas Gray
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"Students will particularly value the range of critical material cited."
––Valerie Edden, University of Birmingham, Modern Language Review
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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.
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This anthology opens with a late fifteenth-century devotional poem which offers an insight into the state of mind which religious lyrics were calculated at once to induce and to assume in their readers, a state of mind which involved a vivid calling to mind ("a remembering") of Christ's passion, combined with a felt reflection upon past sins. Read the first page
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This anthology opens with a late fifteenth-century devotional poem which offers an insight into the state of mind which religious lyrics were calculated at once to induce and to assume in their readers, a state of mind which involved a vivid calling to mind ("a remembering") of Christ's passion, combined with a felt reflection upon past sins. Read the first page
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