Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, And Carols

Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols

Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems,carols, and traditional British ballads written between thethirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with sometwentieth-century American versions of them.A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, andtraditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth andfifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century Americanversions of them.Introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle Englishpoetry.Presents poems of mourning and of celebration, poems dedicatedto the Blessed Virgin and to Christ, poems inviting or disparaginglove, poems about sex, and more.Reader-friendly - uses modernized letter forms, punctuation andcapitalization, and side glosses explaining difficult words.Opens with a substantial introduction by the editor to themedieval lyric as a genre, and features short introductions to eachsection and poem.Also includes an annotated bibliography, glossary, index offirst lines, and list of manuscripts cited.