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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... D'Urfey's adherence to an outdated courtly model of culture and Addison and Steele's vision of personal and national progress. Instead, he salvages poetic justice, if only by negation, by tying it directly to the ballad. Because the ...
... transgressive play gets reinscribed in D'Urfey's first recorded publication. A translation entitled Zelinda: A French Romance (1676), it ends with the last stanza of Suckling's “Balladf'll Why There's No Poetic ]ustice 19.
... D'Urfey's 1676. After the outbreak of the Civil War, courtiers slum by writing ballads not because they can, but because, as embattled partisans of the Crown, they must. Ballads in this era are used to battle the innovations of the ...
... D'Urfey's “Lyrick-Muse the Bayes” as we sing his “Tunefull Layes.” But moving now toward Gay's use of D'Urfey we see that “the Bayes” do not rest comfortably on his brow. Excoriated from the 1670s to the 1690s as a hack unable to live ...
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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 |