A volume uniform with the two previously published, English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century and Religion Lyrics of the XIVth Century. In covering the field of the fifteenth century the editor has been able to select from a wide range of unpublished literature. The anthology reveals the strength of religious lyrical poetry in a generally neglected period. Contents Include: Dialogues between the Blessed Virgin and Child - Marian Laments - Songs and Prayers to the Blessed Virgin - Hymns to the Trinity - Hymns to the God, the Father, Creator - Hymns and Prayers to Christ - Songs of the Annunciation - Songs of the Nativity - Songs for the Epiphany - Hymns and Songs of the Passion - Appeals to the Man from the Cross - Complaints of Christ - Easter Songs - Songs of the Eucharist - The Mysteries of the Faith - Occasional Prayers and Songs - Prayers to the Guardian Angel - Two Prayers by Lydgate Against the Pestilence - Songs of Penitence - Songs of Old Age - Songs of Mortality - Songs Against Fortune - Songs of the Decadence of Virtue - Songs Against Vices - Proverbs and Moral Sentences

Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.