Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric

Author / Editor
Wenzel, Siegfried.

Title
Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric

Published
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Description
Explores the relationship between the lyric and late-medieval preaching, the sermon context, Latin manuscripts of sermons,the Latin hymn tradition, Friar John de Grimestone, preaching verse styles, oral traditions, and homiletic use of verse, with hitherto unpublished Middle English verses.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.