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FROM SIDGWICK & JACKSON’S LIST
EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS: Amorous, Divine, Moral, and Trivial. Chosen by E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. net.
⁂ The purpose of this book is to provide an anthology of English lyrical poetry earlier than the advent of the Sonnet with Wyatt and Surrey during the sixteenth century. It includes 152 poems, ranging between 1225 and 1550 A.D., an essay on Some Aspects of Mediæval Lyric by E. K. Chambers, and full notes.
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