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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... 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, Scots— Scotland ...
... 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 enter any House Contents.
... Children in the Wood, which is one of the Darling Songs of the Common People, and has been the delight of most Englishmen in some part of their Age. -—Ioseph Addison, Spectator 85 Why do you make a book? Because my Hands can extend but ...
... Children in the Wood.” While Addison's reader will think he is “not serious” and although Coleridge patronizingly refers to it as a “little ballad,” they both hear this “Darling Song of the Common People” calling to them. So their ...
... Child who prize the supposedly “pure” oral ballads that record the evidence of a dwindling “folk.”27 However the traditional ballad has been theorized, critics to this day routinely oppose it to the degradations associated with the ...
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 |