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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... 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—Great Britain——History and criticism. 2. Ballads, Scots ...
... Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in 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 ...
... Ballad of the Two 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 ... Ballads run like a.
... Ballads run like a radioactive dye through elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond, illuminating the ... Lyric, and the Canon analyzes how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing ...
... ballads are merely “common,” elite authors are not intimidated by them; they feel freer to rewrite ballads, to show ... Lyrical Ballads who rhetorically asked: “[Wlhat Ballads are not Lyrical?”4 More specifically, 2 Introduction.
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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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