The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Author / Editor
Goldstein, R. James.

Title
The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Published
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2017.

Physical Description
x, 225 pp.

Description
Offers instruction on how to read "older poetry" rhetorically, with emphasis on conventional forms and subgenres of lyric verse, and using the scansion system of Derek Attridge (1982). Chapter 4, "The Love Complaint Ballade: Chaucer to Wyatt" (pp. 72-89), includes close readings of Purse and the perhaps spurious Wom Unc (here titled "Madame, for your newfangelnesse," its opening line), accompanied by background on the verse form and Chaucer's career.

Alternative Title
The Love Complaint Ballade: Chaucer to Wyatt.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics, and Short Poems
Compaint of Chaucer to His Purse
Against Women Unconstant
Style and Versification