What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The volume asks fundamental questions about what these poems are and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship.
Cristina Maria Cervone is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Memphis.
Nicholas Watson is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of
English at Harvard University.
"[T]his stimulating book...aim[s] to rebuild the study of Middle
English lyric from the ground up. The thirteen chapters proceed
from foundation to rooftop...The book is a passionate invitation to
plunge into Middle English lyric. It raises countless questions. It
is certain to spur continuing, vigorous cultivation of its
field."
*Modern Philology*
"What Kind of Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? asks scholars and
poets to rethink not only the Middle English lyric (especially
between the late twelfth and late fourteenth centuries) from the
ground up, but the generic and historiographic contours of Medieval
Studies, lyric studies, and poetry altogether...In addition to
serving as a worthy reference source for the Middle English lyric,
indexed as it is, the book’s stronger impulse of troubling the
lyric forces deeper, more flexible engagements with poetry in
theory and practice, past and present...Altogether, this company of
scholars and artists exemplifies collaboration at its finest."
*Early Middle English*
"This outstanding collection of essays boldly reconceptualizes
Middle English lyric, brilliantly illuminating its formal
intricacies, historical contexts, and power. Among other subjects,
the essays explore lyric multilingualism, wonder, sonic richness,
material inscription, narrativity, dialogism, performativity,
figuration, and intersubjectivity. Destined to hold a distinguished
place in studies of poetry and poetics, this book deserves to be
widely read and relished by anyone interested in new angles of
approach to poetry."
*Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global Age*
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