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What is the overall significance of medieval lyric poetry in English literary history?

  1. It signals the terminal decline of poetic expression in England
  2. It links oral tradition to the written literary forms that followed
  3. It wholly supplants the religious writing of its era
  4. It establishes strict classical meters as the English standard
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Correct answer: It links oral tradition to the written literary forms that followed

Medieval lyric poetry holds a foundational place in English literary history as the bridge between oral tradition and later written forms, shaping the development of imagery, metre, and lyric conventions that persist into the Renaissance.

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