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Medieval Lyric
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
Rezensionen
"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
"Students will particularly value the range of critical material cited."
--Valerie Edden, University of Birmingham, Modern Language Review
Kundenbewertungen
Literary Criticism & History, Literature, Literaturwissenschaft, Englische Literatur / Alt- u. Mittelenglisch, Mittelalter, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Old, Middle & Medieval English Literature