Medieval Lyric
Subtitle: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols (Blackwell Critical Biographies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: enm; eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781405114820
Subjects: Vocal music; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Middle English, 1100-1500; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Songbooks - General; Literary Criticism; Reference; Modernized versions; Medieval; CAROLS; ENGLISH POETRY (COLLECTIONS)_MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500_MODERNIZED VERSIONS; Music / Songbooks; English poetry; Ballads, English; England; Texts
First sentence: This anthology opens with a late fifteenth-century devotional poem which offers an insight into the state of mind which religious lyrics were calculated at once to induce and to assume in their readers, a state of mind which involved a vivid calling to mind ("a remembering") of Christ's passion, combined with a felt reflection upon past sins.