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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... Blake and Wordsworth — Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : 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 ...
... Blake and Wordsworth 136 Reading as Remembering and the Subject of Lyric: Child Ballads, Children's Ballads, and the New Criticism 185 Notes 229 Bibliography 263 Index 283 Acknowledgments 293 This page intentionally left blank [Wlhen I ...
... (Blake, Burns, Clare, Collins, Gray, Hemans, Wordsworth), many others are absent—Anne Finch, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats, to name a few. In their stead are relatively obscure poets like Thomas D'Urfey and Allan Ram— say (the latter ...
... Blake and Wordsworth react against what they feel is the “lyric violence” (Chapter 4) of prior modes of collection in order to envision a future that will preserve the interests of their readers. Or, finally, how ballads build a “lyric ...
... Blake aid the project to clarify how plebeian authors dealt with prohibitions and constricting stereotypes in their attempt to publish their work. The systole of inclusion by way of the ballad cannot be divorced from the diastole of ...
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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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the ... Steve Newman No preview available - 2007 |