This volume brings together 144 examples of lyric poetry, notable in quality and representative of their times. Besides an introduction to the nature of the lyric, there are commentaries at the head of each poem, textual and explanatory footnotes, a general bibliography, and a comprehensive glossary keyed to the text.
Preface Introduction Books for Consultation and Further Reading Religious and Moral Poems of the Thirteenth Century Secular Poems of the Thirteenth Century Religious and Moral Poems of the Fourteenth Century Secular Poems of the Fourteenth Century Religious and Moral Poems of the Fifteenth Century Secular Poems of the Fifteenth Century Glossary Index of First Lines
THEODORE SILVERSTEIN (1904–2001) was a British-born American scholar of medieval literature and a Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
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