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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... culture — Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John ... Popular culture in literature. 5. English literature—History and criticism. 6. Criticism—Great Britain—History. 7 ...
The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve ... culture. Authors happen across ballads on the walls of country houses and ... Common People” calling to them. So their enthusiasm overcomes their embarrassment in ...
... popular culture, on the relationship between orality and print, and on the Ballad Revival itself. So a methodological preamble is in order. Putting Lyric in Its Place: Genre and History It might be said that recent critics have been ...
... popular culture. According to these accounts, belles lettres separates itself from the sullying world of popular culture and the literary marketplace and clears a necessary space for the polite man (gender and status exclusive) whose ...
The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve Newman ... culture of the late eighteenth century.”25 In its stead, minstrelsy seeks to ... popular song. I hope, too, that my readings of Burns and Blake aid the ...
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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