Middle English Lyrics (Norton Critical Edition)

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Summary: A Myriad of Medieval Poetry
Review: I am not a scholar, but here's my 2¢: It's difficult to find collections of Medieval English poetry; the most one can usually hope to find is a bit of Chaucer mixed with Renaissance poetry.This collection provides a welcome relief with 245 poems separated into several categories: Religious, worldly, love, Christmas, bawdy, and more. My personal favorite is a 15th poem which deals with racism. There are several essays, and all poems are dated and sourced. Why only 4 stars? The poems have been slightly modernized, with regards to capitalization, punctuation, thorns and other archaic letters.