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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... John 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 ...
... John 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 ...
... John Gay and Robert Burns. But even those who do not write songs for musical performance, like John Home and William Wordsworth, draw on the communal orientation intimated by the ballad's ontology as song. They see in it a basis for ...
... John Stuart Mill famously defines it, it has been overheard recently by those skeptical of its Romantic soliloquy.11 But this solitary speaking is not intrinsic to lyric. As Theodor Adorno claims in “Lyric and Society,” “All individual ...
... John Sitter has memorably called its “literary loneliness,” positing a “lyric solitude,” a privately oriented “feminization,” or a “lyric negativity” that stands “in contradistinction to the subjects of public conversation.”17 Thus ...
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 |