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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... poetry and criticism from the English Restoration to the American New Criticism. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon analyzes how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform ...
... poetry itself or as fugitive as the crowd that gathers for a moment around a ballad—monger in a city street, as broadly pitched as “all you who either hear or read” or as exclusive as those agitators privileged to know a la— cobite or ...
... poetry is indeed grounded in a collective substratum.”12 For authentic “generality,” according to Adorno, we must paradoxically turn to poets like Stefan George who “scorn every borrowing from the communal language” (163). George's ...
... poets participated: “The liberal self and the lyric self were twin births from and accompanying voices to a ... poetic forms, which were then marked and modified by the languages of interiority.”15 So the lyric individual and the citizen ...
... Poetry” (1766), although lyric has now become “the labor of the closet,” it maintains “a secret reference to the ... poetry). Then there are others, both well and little known, who are not pri— marily poets, like David Garrick, John Home ...
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 |