Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols
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Availability:In StockContributor:John C. HirshTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.), Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies, Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:9/13/2004Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405114820ISBN-10:1405114827UPC:9781405114820Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, MusicBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, Printed MusicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.02 x 6.26 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.354Product ID:SCE3VGEHSZ
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405114820ISBN-10:1405114827UPC:9781405114820Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, MusicBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, Printed MusicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.02 x 6.26 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.354Product ID:SCE3VGEHSZ
John C. Hirsh is Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His previous publications include Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales (Blackwell, 2003), The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality (1996), The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England (1989), and Hope Emily Allen: Medieval Scholarship and Feminism (1988). He has also edited Barlam and Iosaphat (1986) for the Early English Text Society.
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