Further Reading Part I: Medieval Lyrics
Critical and background reading
Arn, Mary-Jo, ed., Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415-1440 (2000)
Bennett, J.A.W. & Douglas Gray, Middle English Literature (1986), Oxford History of English Literature, Chapter 8, 'Lyrics'
Besserman, Lawrence, ‘Sacred and Secular in the Middle English Lyric: “Maiden in the Moor Lay” and “I Sing of a Maiden”’, in Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature (2012)
Boffey, Julia, Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages (1985)
Bolton, W.F., ed., Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, I: The Middle Ages (1970), Chapter 6, Rosemary Woolf, ‘Later Poetry: The Popular Tradition’; Chapter 7, Douglas Gray, ‘Later Poetry: The Courtly Tradition’
Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin, ‘I have a yong suster’: Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric (2002)
Brown, Peter (ed.), A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture 1350-c.1500 (2007), esp. Chapter 23, Rosemary Greentree, ‘Lyric’
Burnley, David, Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England (1998)
Diehl, Patrick S., The Medieval European Religious Lyric (1985)
Dinshaw, Carolyn and David Wallace, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (2003), esp. Sarah Mcnamer, ‘Lyrics and Romances’
Dronke, Peter, The Medieval Lyric (1968); 2nd edn (1978)
Dronke, Peter, Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric, 2nd edn (1968)
Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400-c.1580 (1992)
Duncan, Thomas G., A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (2005)
Fein, Susanna, ed., Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253 (2000)
Fowler, David C., The Bible in Middle English Literature, esp. ‘Medieval Lyrics and the Church Calendar’, pp. 53-127 (1984)
Gray, Douglas, Later Medieval English Literature (2008), Chapter 14, ‘Lyrics’
Gray, Douglas, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric (1972)
Greentree, Rosemary, The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem, Annotated Bibliographies of Old & Middle English Literature, VII (2001)
Holton, Amanda, ‘An obscured tradition: the sonnet’s relationship to its fourteen-line predecessors’, Review of English Studies, 62 (2011), 373-92.
Mehl, Dieter, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer (2001), Chapter 7, ‘The Middle English Lyric’
O’Donoghue, Bernard, The Courtly Love Tradition (1982) Peck, Russell A., Chaucer’s Lyrics and Anelida and Arcite: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1980 (1983)
Reiss, Edmund, The Art of the Middle English Lyric: Essays in Criticism (1972)
Saunders, Corinne, ed., A Companion to Medieval Poetry (2010), esp. David Fuller, ‘Lyrics Sacred and Secular’; Elizabeth Archibald, ‘Macaronic Lyrics’; Barry Windeatt, ‘Courtiers and Courtly Poetry’
Scanlon, Larry, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 (2009), esp. Ardis Butterfield, ‘Lyric’
Spearing, A.C., Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics (2005)
Stevens, John, Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama, 1050-1350 (1986)
Stevens, John, ‘Medieval Lyrics and Music’, in Medieval Literature, Volume I, ed. Boris Ford, New Pelican Guide to English Literature (1982) http://stylisticienne.com/about/ :really interesting blog about Medieval poetry, with a useful glossary and a ‘Poetics Primer’.
Wenzel, Siegfried, Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric (1986)
Woolf, Rosemary, The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages (1968)