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Contents Introduction 1 1 Why There's No Poetic Justice in The Beggar's Opera: Ballads, Lyric, and the Semiautonomy of Culture 15 2 Scots Songs in the Scottish Enlightenment: Pastoral, Progress, and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns 44 3 Addressing the Problem of a Lyric History: Collecting Shakespeare's Songs/Shakespeare as Song Collector 97 4 Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth 136 5 Reading as Remembering and the Subject of Lyric: Child Ballads, Children's Ballads, and the New Criticism 185 Notes 229 Bibliography 263 Index 283 Acknowledgments 293 This page intentionally left blank ] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 09:56 GMT) [W]hen I enter any House in the Country ... I can't, for my Heart, leave a Room before I have thoroughly studied the Walls ofit, and examined the severalprinted Papers which are usuallypasted upon them. ... My Reader will think I am not serious, when I acquaint him that the Piece I am going to speak ofwas the old Ballad ofthe Two Children in the Wood, which is one ofthe Darling Songs ofthe Common People, and has been the delight ofmost Englishmen in some part oftheir Age. -Joseph Addison, Spectator 85 Why do you make a book? Because my Hands can extend but a few score Inches from my Body; because my poverty keeps those Hands empty when my Heart aches to empty them. ... 0 but think only of the thoughts, feelings, radical Impulses that have been implanted in how many thousands of thousands by the little Ballad of the Children in the Wood! The Sphere ofAlexander the great's Agency is trifling compared with it. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebooks But very early Cleanth had made a fundamental suggestion. After an introductory section ofgeneral discussion, we wouldget down to individual poems and start with narrative, including folk ballads. ... [O]ur whole effort was to show how the non-bookish poetry could lead straight to the bookish. -Robert Penn Warren, "Brooks and Warren," Humanities This page intentionally left blank ...