Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme schem... » 

Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary. «