Middle English Courtly Lyrics : Chaucer to Henry VIII

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
Middle English Courtly Lyrics : Chaucer to Henry VIII

Published
Thomas G. Duncan, ed. A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochster, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 120-49.

Description
Sketches the French backgrounds and courtly functions of late medieval English lyrics, surveying representative samples from Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Charles d'Orléans, Skelton, the Findern manuscript, and Humphrey Newton's collection. Clarifies Chaucer's foundational role.

Contributor
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.

Alternative Title
A Companion to the Middle English Lyric.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.