Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Amanda Holton, Lecturer in English, University of Oxford

Amanda Holton read English at Oxford, where she took her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She has taught at Oxford since 1999, and has also worked at the universities of Reading and Southampton. She teaches the English language, and English literature from the early medieval period up to the sixteenth century. Her research interests are in Chaucer, the medieval and sixteenth-century love lyric, and poetics, with an emphasis on how form precedes and generates meaning. She is interested in interrogating the agendas which drive the taxonomy of poetic form, and in challenging the division still made between medieval and early modern literature.