Table of Contents
Preface ix
Conventions xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction. Why stonde we? why go we no3t? Cristina Maria Cervone Nicholas Watson 1
Chapter 1 Lyric Editing Ardis Butterfield 30
Chapter 2 Wondering Through Middle English Lyric Cristina Maria Cervone 61
Chapter 3 Lyric Romance Christopher Cannon 88
Chapter 4 Language and Meter Ian Cornelius 106
Chapter 5 Lyric Value Ingrid Nelson 135
Chapter 6 Cognitive Poetics of Middle English Lyric Poetry Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 159
Chapter 7 Lyric Vessels Aden Kumler 182
Chapter 8 The Sound of Rollean Lyric Andrew Albin 218
Chapter 9 The Lyric Christ Barbara Zimbalist 243
Chapter 10 The Religious Lyric in Medieval England (1150-1400): Three Disciplines and a Question Margot Fassler 268
Chapter 11 Theory of the Fourteenth-Century English Lyric Andrew Galloway 303
Chapter 12 Response: Old Lyric Things Virginia Jackson 342
Chapter 13 Response: Hevy Hameres Stephanie Burt 355
New Medieval Lyrics: A Chapbook 371
Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room Stephanie Burt 373
Margerykempething 22 Pattie McCarthy 374
The Word Water Hunter Keough 375
A Trinity-Riddle †Carter Revard 376
When I left my second husband Kate Caoimhe Arthur 377
I am a wonder to behold Bill Manhire 378
Notes from March and April 2020 Miller Wolf Oberman 379
What the Eagle Fan Says Carter Revard 381
Notes 383
References 475
List of Contributors 521
Index 525
Acknowledgments 545