The Elizabethan age produced some of the most beautiful short lyric poems in the English language, many of them written to be sung to lute accompaniment. This anthology gathers lyrics from the great song-books of the era — Thomas Campion, John Dowland, and their contemporaries — arranged with care for the music and poetry reader alike.
These brief, exquisite poems — on love, springtime, mortality, and pastoral pleasure — are among the purest lyric achievements of English verse. The free EPUB is cleanly formatted with each song’s verse structure preserved.