A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. In

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

Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, toget