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Middle English lyrics;: Authoritative texts, critical and historical backgrounds, perspectives on six poems (A Norton critical edition) by Selected and edited by Maxwell S. Luria [and] Richard L. Hoffman is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p class="null1">This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.</p> <p>It is the only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from <b>MS Harley 2253</b>, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in <b>Brown XIV</b>, and all the important poems given in Robbins' <b>Secular Lyrics</b>.</p> <p>In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged thematically.</p> <p>To make these delightful poems accessible to the modern reader, the editors have removed many of the orthographic impediments inherent in Middle English verse and have modernized punctuation, capitalization,<br> and obsolete letters while scrupulously seeking to retain the substantive integrity of the poems.</p> <p>"Critical and Historical Backgrounds" are provided in essays by Peter Dronke, Stephen Manning, Raymond Oliver, and Rosemary Woolf. In a special section, six poems are singled out for critical comment by A.<br> K. Moore, Edmund Reiss, D. W. Robertson, Jr., E. T. Donaldson, John Speirs, Thomas Jemielity, D. G. Halliburton, Leo Spitzer, and others.</p> <p>Two of these lyrics, "Maiden in the mor lay" and "I sing of a maiden,"<br
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- Author
- Selected and edited by Maxwell S. Luria [and] Richard L. Hoffman
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393043792
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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