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A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these
short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle
English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by
wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an
enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once
attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This
collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from
the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and
secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities
of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity
to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and
production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the
historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image,
song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues
covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts;
affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the
relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly
distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays
take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities
are explored within wider-ranging critical argument.
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these
short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle
English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by
wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an
enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once
attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This
collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from
the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and
secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities
of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity
to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and
production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the
historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image,
song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues
covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts;
affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the
relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly
distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays
take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities
are explored within wider-ranging critical argument. JULIA BOFFEY
is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at
Queen Mary University of London; CHRISTIANIA WHITEHEAD is Professor
of Middle English Literature at the University of Warwick.
Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Julia Boffey, Anne Marie D'Arcy,
Thomas G. Duncan, Susanna Fein, Mary C. Flannery, Jane Griffiths,
Joel Grossman, John C. Hirsh, Hetta Elizabeth Howes, Natalie Jones,
Michael P. Kuczynski, A.S. Lazikani, Daniel McCann, Denis Renevey,
Elizabeth Robertson, Annie Sutherland, Mary Wellesley, Christiania
Whitehead, Katherine Zieman.
Essays on the ways in which the mystical writers of the fourteenth
and fifteenth century responded to and influenced each other.
Without the theologians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries,
without the anchoritic writings of the thirteenth century, Richard
Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe could not
have written as they did. Likewise,those who followed them - the
Wycliffites, the Bridgeittines, the writers of religious lyrics
-responded to those who had gone before. The articles presented
here identify major themes and the web of influence that links
them; new but solid interpretations are offered of the key figures
and their background, and the emphasis is on the rich variety of
mysticism these authors and texts embody. WILLIAM F. POLLARD is
Professor of English at Huntingdon College; ROBERT BOENIG is
Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University.
Contributors: THOMAS H. BESTUL, ROBERT BOENIG, RITAMARY BRADLEY,
SUSAN DICKMAN, DOUGLAS GRAY, ROGER ELLIS, MICHAEL P. KUCZYNSKI,
WILLIAM F. POLLARD, DENIS RENEVEY, ELLEN M. ROSS, ANNE SAVAGE, RENE
TIXIER.
New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The
essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of
Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much
to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus
on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to
palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism,
offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular
topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale
ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within
Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio
Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.
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