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Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

Compelling and insightful, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ballad and its long-ranging impact on the institution of literature
eBook, English, ©2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations
9780812202939, 0812202937
859161484
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
In English