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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... Wordsworth — Reading as remembering and the subject of 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 ...
... 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 This page intentionally left blank [Wlhen I enter any ...
... Wordsworth, draw on the communal orientation intimated by the ballad's ontology as song. They see in it a basis for ... Wordsworth's “The Solitary Reaper,” in which a tourist happens upon a singer of popular song and is arrested by its ...
... Wordsworth and other canonical authors institute what Jerome McGann has labeled “the Romantic ideology,” which reveals that the “greater Romantic lyric” celebrated by M. H. Abrams is built upon sacrificing history and collective life on ...
... Wordsworth's 'experiment—in which lyrics effectively functioned as data in hypothetical narratives of knowledge linking past to present.”13 For Siskin, then, it is correct to see lyric emerging to become the essence of Literature ...
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 |