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The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem

Greentree, Rosemary

Hardcover

Series: Annotated Bibliographies, Book 7

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0859916219
ISBN13: 9780859916219
Publisher: D S Brewer
Published: Jul 15 2001
Pages: 580
Weight: 2.53
Height: 1.36 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
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.

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