Author: William CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Ballads, Songs and Poems of William Collins
Author: William CollinsBallads and songs of Peterloo
Author: Alison MorganPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526132486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers. Notes to support the reading of the texts are provided, but they also stand alone, conveying the original publications without diluting their authenticity. Following an introduction outlining the massacre, the radical press and broadside ballad, the poems are grouped into six sections according to theme. Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy is included as an appendix in acknowledgement of its continuing significance to the representation of Peterloo. This book is primarily aimed at students and lecturers of Romanticism and social history.
Talks about Ireland
Author: James RedpathPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon
Author: Steve NewmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.
William Collins and 'the Poetical Character'
Author: Sandro JungPublisher:
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Category : Genius in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John SitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Poetry of Irish History
Author: Mary J. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The New American Cyclopaedia
Author: George RipleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Author: