Furnivall, Frederick James, ed.; Rossetti, William Michael, ed., Political, Religious and Love Poems (Early English Text Society Original Series 15) Read this source online
Text name(s): Political, Religious and Love Poems
Number of pages of primary source text: 308
Author(s):
Dates: 1350 - 1460
Archival Reference: Lambeth Palace Library MS 306; British Library MS Harley 7322
Original Language(s):
- English - Middle English
Translation:
- Original language included.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- England
County/Region:
Record Types:
- Literature - Verse
- Scripture
Subject Headings:
- Literature - Arthurian
- Literature - Devotional
- Medicine
- Piety
- Political Thought
- Reform
- Royalty / Monarchs
- Saints
Apparatus:
- Index
- Glossary
- Introduction
Comments:
This volume contains dozens of poems of a rather miscellaneous nature, most of which are drawn from Lambeth MS. No. 306, along with many short religious poems from MS. Harley 7322. The preface is followed by “Notes on the Stacyons of Rome” by W.M. Rossetti, which provides background information about many of the sites described in the poem. There is an index of people and places, as well as a glossarial index. Marginal notes summarize the texts throughout. The entire book is available on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse website.
Introduction Summary:
Furnivall’s brief preface (pp. ix-xix) explains why these poems are grouped together in one volume, and discusses some of his process of discovering these poems and their meanings. He explains the allusions behind the political poems.
Cataloger: MK
