Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology.

Author / Editor
Davies, R. T., ed.

Title
Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology.

Published
London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
[Evanston, Illinois]: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Physical Description
384 pp.

Description
Anthologizes 187 English lyric poems and lyrical excerpts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, arranged in chronological order, with an Introduction (pp. 13-49), on-page glosses, end-of-text notes, an appendix of Types and Titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and a first-line index. Includes six selections from Chaucer (nos. 52-57, pp. 132-39): the "roundel" from PF (ll. 680-92), Ros, the "ballade" from LGWP (ll. F249-69), Truth, Purse, and MerB.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Lyrics and Short Poems
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
To Rosemounde
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
Truth
Merciless Beaute