Songbook [electronic resource] : how lyrics became poetry in medieval Europe / Marisa Galvez.

9780226280523 (ebook) :

Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

1 online resource (xi, 281 p., [4] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.)

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'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself.

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September 22, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.