- Publisher: Exeter UP
- Year: 2009
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 227x153mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9780859898171
- Product code: 512547
The Digby Poems
A New Edition of the Lyrics
Ed. Helen Barr New Paperback
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The 24 short lyrics known as the Digby Poems date from the early 15th century and represent a challenge to the theory that vernacular religious writing was stifled by the Church at that time. In this freshly transcribed and extensively annotated edition, Helen Barr provides new evidence for the poems’ provenance and authorship and shows their political significance and their place in the tradition of devotional writing.
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In Helen Barr's new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. The critical apparatus includes a full introduction, extensive annotation to each poem, and a new glossary. New evidence shows that this sequence of poems was written in the early years of Henry V's reign (c.1413-14), and most probably by a Benedictine monk eager to add his support for the Henrician new dawn. There is strong support for war against France and for the proper conduct of parliamentary business. The poems are rigorous in their call for orthodox reform from within the Church. Throughout, the concerns of Church and State are inseparable from a fierce call for penitence, both collective and individual. The sequence contains some harrowing devotional writing; the poet makes especially agile use of demanding stanza forms to ensure that human beings are left in no doubt as to their failings. Barr's extensive annotation brings out not just the political significance of the poems but also their place in the tradition of devotional writing.
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The 24 short lyrics known as the Digby Poems date from the early 15th century and represent a challenge to the theory that vernacular religious writing was stifled by the Church at that time. In this freshly transcribed and extensively annotated edition, Helen Barr provides new evidence for the poems’ provenance and authorship and shows their political significance and their place in the tradition of devotional writing.
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