Early English Lyrics, Amorous, Divine, Moral & Trivial

by E.K. Chambers

From the back Over 150 poems representing the finest flowering of English lyric poetry from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century are represented in this anthology. A long introductory essay on Some Aspects of Mediaeval Lyric by the late Sir Edmund Chambers places the poems in their historical setting and is followed by a detailed bibliography and essential notes to the individual poems.

384 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1907

About the author

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, KBE, CB, FBA, usually cited as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.