Medieval Lyric
Subtitle: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: enm; eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781405114813
Subjects: Poetry anthologies: classical, early & medieval; Modernized versions; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Music; Poetry; Texts; CAROLS; ENGLISH POETRY (COLLECTIONS)_MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500_MODERNIZED VERSIONS; Music / Songbooks; English poetry; General; Ballads, English; England; Middle English, 1100-1500
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.