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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... Home, and Robert Burns — Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs! Shakespeare as song collector — Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth — Reading as remembering and the ...
... Home, and Robert Burns 44 Addressing the Problem of a Lyric History: Collecting Shakespeare's Songs/ Shakespeare as Song Collector 97 Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth 136 Reading as Remembering and the ...
... Home and William Wordsworth, draw on the communal orientation intimated by the ballad's ontology as song. They see in it a basis for community that may be as lasting as poetry itself or as fugitive as the crowd that gathers for a moment ...
... Home, and Thomas Percy, as well as the various critics, scholars, textbook writers, and teachers discussed in the final chapter. Some of these choices can be attributed to the exigency of space; this does not pretend to be an exhaustive ...
... home, / For some other shall have her Barly.” The title of the broadside version notes that it is “much in request at Court,” which locates it within a tradition of elite pastoral balladry that extends back at least to the reign 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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