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A Companion to the Middle English Lyric.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A Companion to the Middle English Lyric.(Book review)

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A Companion to the Middle English Lyric. Ed. by Thomas G. Duncan. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 2005. xxv + 328 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-184384-065-7.

It is a pleasure to review a collection with such consistently good contributions. This volume is dedicated to Douglas Gray and will prove as important a milestone in criticism of the Middle English lyric as the authoritative studies by Rosemary Woolf and Douglas Gray, published in 1968 and 1972 respectively. These are critical essays, but everywhere the significance of manuscript contexts in their interpretation is given its due. Equally appropriately, the relationships between English, French, and Latin lyrics (some other linguistic traditions) are weighed with fresh and up-to-date expertise.

We begin with Julia Boffey's account of 'Middle English Lyrics and Manuscripts', an outstanding compendium of research...

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