Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New CriticismUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 M06 8 - 294 pages The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? |
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... child ballads , children's ballads , and the New Criticism . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-8122-4009-2 ( acid - free paper ) ISBN - 10 : 0-8122-4009 - X ( acid - free paper ) 1. Ballads , English - Great Britain — History and criticism . 2. Ballads ...
... Blake and Wordsworth 97 136 5 Reading as Remembering and the Subject of Lyric : Child Ballads , Children's Ballads , and the New Criticism 185 Notes 229 263 Bibliography Index 283 Acknowledgments 293 [ W ] hen I enter any House in the.
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