Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism by Steve Newman

Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

Steve Newman

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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 seemi...

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