Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the

This critical book studies in depth the transition from the 'medieval' to the 'Renaissance' periods in English literature.

Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.

In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.