Songs and Lyrics

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
Songs and Lyrics

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 83-98.

Description
Characterizes the nature and conventions of Middle English lyrics, looking briefly at representative examples. Includes discussion of Chaucer as both a representative lyricist and one who breaks boundaries in his short poems.

Alternative Title
Literature in Fourteenth-Century England.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.