Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism /
Newman, Steve,1970-
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.
Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture -- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, 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 subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots
Ballads in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
English literature
Criticism
Criticism