Author: Mother Agnes M. BarryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Beauty of the Medieval English Religious Lyrics
Author: Mother Agnes M. BarryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric
Author: Douglas GrayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042958881X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.
Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric
Author: Douglas GrayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042959075X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.
Medieval English Lyrics
Author: Reginald Thorne DaviesPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810100756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.
The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages
Author: Rosemary WoolfMedieval English Verse
Author: Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141966637
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Medieval Lyric
Author: John C. HirshPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470755512
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. Introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English poetry. Presents poems of mourning and of celebration, poems dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and to Christ, poems inviting or disparaging love, poems about sex, and more. Reader-friendly - uses modernized letter forms, punctuation and capitalization, and side glosses explaining difficult words. Opens with a substantial introduction by the editor to the medieval lyric as a genre, and features short introductions to each section and poem. Also includes an annotated bibliography, glossary, index of first lines, and list of manuscripts cited.
The Medieval Lyric
Author: Peter DronkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This highly acclaimed introduction to the medieval lyric during the period 850-1300 is now reissued in a third edition, which includes a new preface and substantial new bibliographical indications. After an introductory discussion of the performers and performance of lyrics in the middle ages, each chapter analyses one of the major lyrical genres and centres on close critical discussion of outstanding lyrics, with generous quotation of texts and translations. While the rise of religious lyric and the transformations of love-lyric receive the fullest treatment, there are also chapters on women's songs, on the alba, on dance-songs, and on lyrics of realism'.
Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyrics
Author: Douglas GrayLyrics of the Middle Ages
Author: James J. WilhelmPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135035539
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This anthology features nearly 300 works in 14 linguistic areas: Latin hymns and lyrics from 800 to 1300...Carmina Burana...Proven al lyrics...Italian lyrics...North French lyrics...German lyrics...lyrics of Iberia, including Arabic, Hebrew, Mozarabic, Galician-Portuguese, Castilian, and Catalan...lyrics of Great Britain, including Irish, Welsh, Old English, Middle English, and Scottish-English ballads. More than 100 authors are represented, including Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, the major troubadours and trouv res, Walther von der Vogelweide, St. Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, The Countess of Dia, The Queen of Mallorca, Hildegard of Bingen, Ibn Hazm, Mozarabic kharja writers, Denis I of Portugal, Alfonso X of Castile, Sordello, Fran ois Villon, Charles d'Orl ans, and many who are anonymous. There are indexes of authors, opening lines, and genres, and 12 photographs represent scenes that are related to the poems. SPECIAL FEATURES inclusion of the widest possible range of texts from the western Middle Ages allows comparative, cross-cultural approaches; fresh translations by an authoritative team of scholars were prepared especially for this volume; tape or CD information is provided for medieval lyrics that have been given modern recordings; apparatus includes a selection of texts in their original languages and indices of authors, titles/first lines, and genres Suitable for Courses in Medieval Literature in Translation; Comparative Literature; The Lyric