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Index Abrams, M. H., 5 Addison, Joseph, 51. See also Spectator, The "Address to the Sons of Burns" (Wordsworth). See Scottish sequence Adorno, Theodor W., 5 aesthetic: aesthetic (dis)interest, 9, 10, 16, 235n46; "aesthetic humanism" and "aesthetics of participation" (Grossman), 226-27; in Blake, 159; critique of, 2, 16, 42-43, 150; in Gay, 16, 26; women as objects in, 58. See also canon/Literature Agnew, Jean-Christophe, 235n6o America a Prophecy (Blake), 155 Anderson, Benedict, 14, 199 Applebee, Arthur N., 208 Arne, Thomas, 105 Arnold, Matthew, 95 Arnold, Thomas, 191-92 "Baby Lon" (Child 14), 209 Backscheider, Paula R., 233n22 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 230nu ballad: broadside vs. minstrel and traditional, 11; as children's text, 4, 188; collection of, 3; and colonialism, 10; as "common;' 2, 8, 92, 215; communal authorship of, 195-96, 201-2, 208-9; critical abuse of, 229n2; definition of, 2, 8; as democratic, 202; as form in New Criticism, 213; Jacobin, 3, 132-33; Jacobite, 3, 132; as lesser lyric, 2-3; as "nothing;' 41; and novel, 2; as oral and print text, 11-12, 70, 96, 193, 199; as performed text, 8, 32, 34-35, 96, 129, 209; and poetic justice, 14, 18, 40-41; as "protoplasm of literature;' 14, 203, 206; trade in, 234n38. See also Child, Francis James; cultureepoch theory; Gummere, Francis Barton; lyric; poetic justice; songs "Ballad, X' (Wordsworth), 160, 180 Ballad ofBillie Potts, The (Warren), 217-20; Oedipal plot in, 220; paradoxes in, 219; split between ballad and commentary in, 217-18 ballad opera, 34 Ballad Revival: and "bardic nationalism" (Trumpener), 10, 14-15; as exploitation, 9-10; irony of, 3; as object of reflection, 138, 161, 175; as "scandal" (Stewart), 10 "Ballads That Illustrate Shakespeare" (Percy): ballads as sources of plays in, 123; engraving of Shakespeare in, 119-22; "Friar of Orders Gray" as a Shakespearean song in, 126-28 Bate, Jonathan, 133 Bates, Katharine Lee: "America the Beautiful ;' 185, 221; Ballad Book, 185, 189, 207-8, 209,221 Beggar's Opera, The (Gay), 15-43,74, 96; Air 3 ("Cold and Raw"), 18-19, 24-27, 34, 36; Air 12 ("Now ponder well"), 27, 34-36, 39; Air 46 ("A Shepherd Kept Sheep"), 37; Air 57 ("Greensleeves"), 37; alternative to opera and scaffold in, 17, 40; ballads and poetic justice in, 40-41; "being particular" in, 17, 35-37; the City in, 24, 43; compared to The Spectator, 34-35; eighteenth-century responses to, 38-39; epigraph from Martial in, 24, 39; poetic justice in, 13, 15-17, 26; as satire on audience's judgment, 39, 235n53; subjectivity in, 18, 35-37, 39; theorization of culture in, 13; twentieth-century adaptations of, 43. See also Gay, John Behn, Aphra, 22 Bell, Michael J., 196 Berman, Art, 26on89 Blair, Hugh: on figures in lyric, 62, 78; rejection of Love and Liberty, 82; on Scots in The Gentle Shepherd, 64; on sensibility in Ossian, 71; on taste, 92--93 Blake, William, 139-59; antinomianism of, 284 Index 139, 156; attraction to Street Cries, 141; and the Ballad Revival, 142; as bricoleur, 141, 154; the City in, 151; as communitarian, 140, 158-59; duty in, 139, 140, 142, 158-59; as individualist, 140; limits of experience/realism in, 149-51; particularity in, 140, 154, 249-50016; patrons and, 143; pity as a form of violence in, 138, 142, 146-47, 150, 155-56; prophecy in, 11, 140, 141, 150; and religious enthusiasm, 250018; Ritson's Select Collection engraved by, 138, 142; songs in, 143, 145, 158; as urban antiquarian, 142, 144; view of history in, 142. See also individual works; Street Cries Bloom, Harold, 244010 Bogel, Fredric V., 234-35n49, 240n61 "Bonnie Earl of Murray, The" (Child 181), 69 Booth, Mark W., 229n5 Boswell, James, 36, 39, n8 Boy's Percy, The (Lanier), 206-7,208 Boyle, Robert, 21 "Braes ofYarrow, The" (Hamilton), no, 169 Brewer, John, 16, 26, 43, 75 Brooks, Cleanth: editor of Percy Letters, 212; interest in philology, 260n95; on Ode on a Grecian Urn as a "drama;' 211-12; recommends ballads to Warren, 216-17; sings "Frankie and Johnny" to/for Warren, 216, 223; uses Gummere, 212-13 Brother to Dragons (Warren), 219-22; appropriation of Ghost Dance in, 222, 226; ballads as innocent in, 220; compared to Blake's "self-annihilation;' 223; "dramatic situation" of, 219; failure ofAmerican dream in, 221; failure of form in, 221; guilt in, 221; Oedipal plot in, 220; race in, 221 Brown, Marshall, 230016 Burger, Gottfried August, 13, 161, 169...

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