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'OrleĢans, 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.