How did the religious lyrics of the thirteenth century carry on the theme of transience seen earlier in Anglo-Saxon poetry? What
sort of questions did these lyrics ask? What response was implied? What lesson was meant to be learned? Write a short paragraph in response to all three of these questions.
Answer: Thirteenth-Century English Religious Lyrics, Religious Women, And the Cistercian Imagination Charlotte Allen, Ph.D. Director: Stephen K. Wright, Ph.D. Nearly all of the brief Middle English lyric poems that began to appear in manuscripts during the first half of the thirteenth century …
