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Political poetry, English (Middle)

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• English political poetry, Middle
• Middle English political poetry
• Political poetry, English -- Middle English, 1100-1500
• Political poetry, Middle English

• Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Richard the Redeless, and Mum and the Sothsegger, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352, by Laurence Minot, ed. by Richard H. Osberg (HTML at metseditions.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Middle English Poem Erthe Upon Erthe, Printed From Twenty-Four Manuscripts (EETS original series #141; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, c1911, reprinted 1964), ed. by Hilda M. R. Murray (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Chepman and Myllar Prints, contrib. by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar (page images and HTML with commentary in the UK)
• The Chief Middle English Poets: Selected Poems, Newly Rendered and Edited, With Notes and Bibliographical References (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1914), ed. by Jessie L. Weston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial (London: A.H . Bullen, 1907), by Frank Sidgwick, ed. by E. K. Chambers
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Floure and the Leafe, The Assemblie of Ladies, and The Isle of Ladies, ed. by Derek Pearsall, contrib. by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Harley Lyrics, ed. by Frances McSparran (HTML at Michigan)
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS. (published in 2 parts (part III never published) as EETS #98 and #117; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench Trübner and Co., 1892-1901), ed. by Carl Horstmann and Frederick James Furnivall
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (with a few from the Digby MSS. 2 and 86): multiple formats at archive.org
• Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies (London: Printed by C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton, 1791), ed. by Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of Saint Anne (EETS original series #174; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928), ed. by Roscoe Edward Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, ed. by Edward E. Foster (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Corn from Olde Fieldes: An Anthology of English Poems From the XIVth to the XVIIth Century, With Biographical Notes (London and New York: J. Lane, ca. 1918), ed. by Eleanor M. Brougham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Historical and Poetical Medley: or, Muses Library (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1738), ed. by Mrs. Cooper and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patience: An Alliterative Version of Jonah by the Poet of Pearl (London: Oxford University Press, 1913), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances, ed. by Alan Lupack (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Randy P. Schiff (PDF at Ohio State)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Secular Lyric (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1951), by Arthur Keister Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• The DIMEV: An Open-Access, Digital Edition of the Index of Middle English Verse, ed. by Linne R. Mooney, Daniel Wayne Mosser, and Elizabeth Solopova, contrib. by Deborah Ellen Thorpe, David Hill Radcliffe, and Len Hatfield (HTML at dimev.net)

• The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English (c1993), by Geoffrey Chaucer, trans. by Ronald L. Ecker and Eugene Joseph Crook (HTML at fsu.edu)
• The Chief Middle English Poets: Selected Poems, Newly Rendered and Edited, With Notes and Bibliographical References (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1914), ed. by Jessie L. Weston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi (5 volumes; 1978-2000), ed. by Sarah M. Horrall, Roger R. Fowler, Henry J. Stauffenberg, Peter H. J. Mous, L. M. Eldredge, and Anne L. Klinck
  • Volume I: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume III: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume IV: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume V: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
• Piers Plowman, by William Langland (multiple editions)
• Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
• Pearl, ed. by Sarah Stanbury (HTML at metseditions.org)
• A Stanzaic Life of Christ, Compiled From Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea, Edited From Ms. Hartley 3909 (EETS original series #166; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), ed. by Frances A. Foster, contrib. by Ranulf Higden and Jacobus de Voragine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at metseditions.org)
• William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman (main text from the 1978 Dent and Dutton edition), by William Langland (HTML at Michigan)
• The Works of William Herebert, OFM, by William Herebert, ed. by Stephen R. Reimer (HTML at Michigan)
• The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of Saint Anne (EETS original series #174; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928), ed. by Roscoe Edward Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Saint Katherine, by John Capgrave, ed. by Karen A. Winstead (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Middle English Marian Lyrics, ed. by Karen Saupe (HTML at metseditions.org)

• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Cotton), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Jes. Col. 29), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, ed. by Warren Ginsberg (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at metseditions.org)

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