Toward a Poetics of the Late Medieval Court Lyric

Author / Editor
Olson, Glending.

Title
Toward a Poetics of the Late Medieval Court Lyric

Published
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 227-48.

Description
Discusses lyric genres of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, and others to show that late-medieval society saw lyrics as "recreation, as conversation, as personal expression, as music." Treats TC, BD, GP, Buk, Purse, Truth, and Sted.

Alternative Title
Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.