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'I have a yong suster': Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric. By KARIN BOKLUND-LAGOPOLOU. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 269 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; 60 [euro]. ISBN 1-85182-627-0.
In this admirable book Karin Boklund-Lagopolou investigates the popular poetry of later medieval and early Tudor England. That she achieves so much is a reflection of her own scholarship--and of the neglect into which the study of medieval folk song has now fallen, which leaves much ground for Boklund-Lagopolou to cover. She must establish the corpus of popular poetry and discuss the criteria for inclusion, give some sense of their formal properties and the circumstances of their production and reception, consider the manuscripts in which they survive, and print many songs in their entirety (since they are not well known), so that the book also serves as a useful anthology of Middle English folk songs. After these preliminaries...
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