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

Folk Music Journal | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve Newman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 294 pp. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4009-2. US$65.00 £42.50.

The topic of this book is initially elusive; or at least, Newman has assembled a very wide range of materials, mostly drawn from the long eighteenth century, but with a strong concluding chapter on the role of ballads in American education, and especially their appeal to mid-twentieth-century New Criticism. It's a journey that takes the reader from Gay's ...

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