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Editions:

• Arens, Werner und Rainer Schöwerling (Eds.). Mittelenglische Lyrik: Englisch  - Deutsch. Stuttgart 1980.
• Böddeker, K. (Ed.). Altenglische Dichtungen des MS. Harley 2253. Berlin 1878; repr. Amsterdam 1969.
• Brook, G. L. (Ed.) The Harley Lyrics: The Middle English Lyrics of MS. Harley 2253. 4th ed.,  Manchester 1968.
• Davies, R. T. (Ed.). Medieval English Lyrics. London 1987.
• Brown, Carleton (Ed.). Religious Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford 1932.
• Facsimile of British Museum MS. Harley 2253, with an introduction by N.  R. Ker. London 1965. [EETS 255]
• Sisam, Celia and Kenneth (Eds.) The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford 1970.
• Stemmler, Theo (Ed.). Medieval English Love Lyrics. Tübingen 1970.

Studies:

• Brewer, Derek S. "The Ideal of Feminine Beauty in Medieval Literature, Especially Harley Lyrics, Chaucer, and Some Elizabethans," MLR 50 (1955):257-269.
• Brook, G. L. "The Original Dialect of the Harley Lyrics," LeedsSE 2 (1933):38-61.
• Busse, Wilhelm G. "Bishops' Courts as Cultural Centres: The Case of the Harley Lyrics", in: Klein, J. and D. Vanderbeke (Eds.), Anglistentag 1995 Greifswald: Proceedings. Tübingen 1996:285-295.
• Carter, Revard, "Richard Hurd and MS. Harley 2253," N&Q 224 (1979):199-202.
• Dronke, Peter. The Medieval Lyric. London 1968.
• Gibson, A. The Lyrics of MS. Harley 2253. London 1914.
• Gray, Douglas. Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyrics. London 1972.
• Hogan, Theresa Clare. A Critical Study of the Middle English Lyrics of British Museum MS. Harley 2253. Notre Dame,  Univ., Diss., 1962.
• Howell, Andrew J. "Reading the Harley Lyrics: A Master Poet and the Language of Conventions," ELH 47 (1980):619-645.
• Jones, Meredith Joy: The Harley lyrics in context : the structure and organization of Ms. Harley 2253. Diss. Univ.ersity of Michigan 1985.
• Kane, George. "A Short Essay on Middle English Secular Lyric," NM 73 (1972):110-121.
• Moore, Arthur K. The Secular Lyric in Middle English. Westport, Conn. 1950
• Osberg, Richard H. "Alliterative Technique in the Lyrics of MS. Harley 2253," MP 82 (1984):125-155.
• Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry. London  1977: 120-132.
• Spitzer, Leo. "Explication de Texte, Applied to Three Great Middle English Poems," Archivum Linguisticum 3 (1951):1-22, 137-165.
• Stemmler, Theo. Die englischen Liebesgedichte des MS Harley 2253. Bonn 1962.
• Stemmler, Theo. "Zur Datierung des MS. Harley 2253," Anglia 80 (1962):111-118.
• Stemmler, Thomas. "Miscellany or Anthology? The Structure of Medieval Manuscripts: MS. Harley 2253, for Example,"  ZAA 39 (1991):231-237.
• Stevick, Robert D. "The Criticism of Middle English Lyrics," MP 64 (1966/67):103-117.
• Willen, Celia Townsend. An Annotated Edition and Thematic Study of Selected Lyrics from Ms. Harley 2253. New York, NY,  Columbia Univ., Diss., 1970
• Woolf, Rosemary. The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages. Oxford 1968.