The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden.

Author / Editor
Stokes, Richard.

Title
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden.

Published
[London]: Penguin, 2016.

Physical Description
xxx, 945 pp.

Description
Opens with a section (pp. 1-6) on Chaucer's life and his role as a songwriter (one who "introduced the rondel into England from France"), and reprints, with glosses and comments, the words from Ralph Vaughan Williams's printed musical score of MercB (1921/22) and from Sir George Dyson's GP, 1-42 (1931).

Chaucer Subjects
Merciles Beaute
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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