A Short Essay on the Middle English Secular Lyric

Author / Editor
Kane, George.

Title
A Short Essay on the Middle English Secular Lyric

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 110-21.

Description
Summarizes the historical and formal stumbling blocks involved in describing a tradition of Middle English secular lyrics, with comments on Chaucer's innovations and on the evidence in his works for courtly and popular legacies.

Alternative Title
"Studies Presented to Tauno Mustanoja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday."

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems