Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme schem

A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.

An anthology of 245 Middle English lyrics that includes modernized punctuation, capitalization, and obsolete letters, making the text easier to read and underst

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twe

Many of the contributors to this companion teach English at American universities. The volume, which provides undergraduates with an overview of the field, cont