Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay : Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Ruud, Jay.
Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay : Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry
- Published
- New York: Garland, 1992.
- Physical Description
- xii, 338 pp.
- Description
- Chaucer's lyrics have been neglected not because Chaucer was an incompetent lyric poet but because they have been overshadowed by his narrative poetry. Ruud introduces the lyrics to those not familiar with them, providing a separate "reading" of each poem. Notes summarize critical debates and interpretive cruces for each poem, and the arrangement of chapters enables the reader to trace Chaucer's development as a lyric poet. The final chapter deals
- with the place and importance of Chaucer's lyrics in the Chaucer canon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Lyrics and Short Poems.