The Making of Poetry: Late-Medieval French Poetic Anthologies

Seeking the elusive meaning of the editorial choices made by the anthologists at the end of the Middle Ages, Taylor (Durham U.) argues that the social and cultural environment in which the anthologies were produced governed the writer and the act of writing; and that critics need to think not just about the poem on the page, but about the entirety of the poetic event and the poem's social particularity. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)