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The Digby Poems. A New Edition of the Lyrics.
Helen Barr
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Description for The Digby Poems. A New Edition of the Lyrics.
Paperback. Includes an introduction, annotation to each poem, and a fresh glossary. This title contains devotional writing; the poet makes agile use of demanding stanza forms to ensure that human beings are left in no doubt as to their failings. It brings out the political significance of poems and also their place in the tradition of devotional writing. Editor(s): Barr, Helen. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In Helen Barr’s new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. The critical apparatus includes a full introduction, extensive annotation to each poem, and a new glossary. New evidence shows that this sequence of poems was written in the early years of Henry V’s reign (c.1413–14), and most probably by a Benedictine monk eager to add his support for the Henrician new dawn. There is strong support for war against France and for the proper conduct of parliamentary business. The poems are rigorous in their call for orthodox reform from within ... Read more
In Helen Barr’s new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. The critical apparatus includes a full introduction, extensive annotation to each poem, and a new glossary. New evidence shows that this sequence of poems was written in the early years of Henry V’s reign (c.1413–14), and most probably by a Benedictine monk eager to add his support for the Henrician new dawn. There is strong support for war against France and for the proper conduct of parliamentary business. The poems are rigorous in their call for orthodox reform from within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898171
SKU
V9780859898171
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About Helen Barr
Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has edited and written on the Piers Plowman tradition, is author of Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England (2001), and co-edited Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale (2005) with Ann M. Hutchison.
Reviews for The Digby Poems. A New Edition of the Lyrics.
Helen Barr demonstrates that the Digby poems are worthy of serious study and offers a model of how to read unhistorical writing historically.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1
... this is very much an edition to be welcomed.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1
Barr is to ... Read more
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1
... this is very much an edition to be welcomed.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1
Barr is to ... Read more