Middle English Courtly Lyrics : Chaucer to Henry VIII
- Author / Editor
- Gray, Douglas.
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'OrleĢans, 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.