Religious Lyrics of the Xivth Century (1924) (Paperback)

This collection makes no pretension to completeness. Of the conventional types of devotional verse, only representative examples are given. The editor's objects have been to publish previously unprinted material; to offer better texts of poems already printed from inferior manuscripts; to give trustworthy texts of poems that have been printed inaccurately; to bring together texts that are found in scattered & often inaccessible publications; and above all, to represent the lyrical development of the century. Many of the verses are written in archaic English.