Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Editing Issues in Middle English Lyrics
- Part I Affect
- Part II Visuality
- Part III Mouvance, Transformation
- 10 Voice and Response: Lyric Rewriting of the Song of Songs
- 11 Compiling the Lyric: Richard Rolle, Textual Dynamism and Devotional Song in London, British Library, Additional MS 37049
- 12 Lyric Interventions in Troilus and Criseyde
- 13 Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate's Thoroughfare of Woe, and Lyric as Epitome
- 14 ‘Short song is good in ale’: Charles d'Orléans and Authorial Intentions in the Middle English Ballade 84
- Part IV Words, Music, Speech
- Afterword: The Study of Medieval Lyrics in 1960s Oxford and Today
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
13 - Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate's Thoroughfare of Woe, and Lyric as Epitome
from Part III - Mouvance, Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Editing Issues in Middle English Lyrics
- Part I Affect
- Part II Visuality
- Part III Mouvance, Transformation
- 10 Voice and Response: Lyric Rewriting of the Song of Songs
- 11 Compiling the Lyric: Richard Rolle, Textual Dynamism and Devotional Song in London, British Library, Additional MS 37049
- 12 Lyric Interventions in Troilus and Criseyde
- 13 Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate's Thoroughfare of Woe, and Lyric as Epitome
- 14 ‘Short song is good in ale’: Charles d'Orléans and Authorial Intentions in the Middle English Ballade 84
- Part IV Words, Music, Speech
- Afterword: The Study of Medieval Lyrics in 1960s Oxford and Today
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
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- Middle English LyricsNew Readings of Short Poems, pp. 189 - 200Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018