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The Flower and the Leaf

English poem

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English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Courtly poetry

    …apocryphal trifles such as “The Flower and the Leaf” and “The Assembly of Ladies” (both c. 1475), the former, like a surprising quantity of 15th-century verse of this type, purportedly written by a woman. The stock figures of the ardent but endlessly frustrated lover and the irresistible but disdainful…

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