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Copyright © 2007 University ofPennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Exceptfor briefquotations usedfor purposes ofreview or scholarly citation , none ofthis book may be reproduced in anyform by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University ofPennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper 10987654321 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Newman, Steve, 1970Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism I Steve Newman. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Why there's 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 oflyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism. ISBN-13: 978-o-8122-4009-2 (acid-free paper) ISBN-10: o-8122-4009-X (acid-free paper) 1. Ballads, English-Great Britain-History and criticism. 2. Ballads, ScotsScotland -History and criticism. 3. Ballads in literature. 4. Popular culture in literature. 5. English literature-History and criticism. 6. Criticism-Great Britain-History. 7· Criticism-United States-History. I. Title. PR507.N49 2007 821'.04409--dc22 2006051472 To Keely, my beloved 9] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 08:27 GMT) This page intentionally left blank ...

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