Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New CriticismUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M04 23 - 304 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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... Addison, Spectator 85 Why do you make a book? Because my Hands can extend but a few score Inches from my Body; because my poverty keeps those Hands empty when my Heart aches to empty them. . . . 0 but think only of the thoughts ...
... Addison and Coleridge, despite their many differences, are both drawn to the much reprinted ballad of “The Children in the Wood.” While Addison's reader will think he is “not serious” and although Coleridge patronizingly refers to it as ...
... Addison and Coleridge. To quote The Win~ ter's Tale, a text I will be returning to repeatedly, they “love a ballad-in~ print”—not because they “are true,” as Shakespeare's shepherds believe, but because they circulate widely. It is true ...
... Addison, Coleridge, and many other elite authors interested in the ballad (let alone for ballads themselves, which often pass in dizzying fashion back and forth between print and orality). Neither do all elite authors turn to the ballad ...
... Addison and Richard Steele. They present these songs as admirably simple in their emotions, intrinsically English, and favored by “the Common people.” They are ideal objects for what Addison calls “the polite Imagination,”6 giving ...
Contents
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Pastoral Progress and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay John Home and Robert Burns | 44 |
Collecting Shakespeares SongsShakespeare as Song Collector | 97 |
4 Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth | 136 |
Child Ballads Childrens Ballads and the New Criticism | 185 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 293 |
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