Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric / / Siegfried Wenzel.

The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric explores this...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1986
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 368
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Preachers and Poets
  • 2. The Medieval Hymn Tradition
  • 3. The Sermon as an Art Form
  • 4. The Oeuvre of Friar John of Grimestone
  • 5. Grimestone the Lyricist
  • 6. Complaint Verses and Oral Traditions
  • 7. Love Sacred and Profane
  • 8. Preachers or Poets
  • Index of Manuscripts Cited
  • Index of First Lines
  • General Index