Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry Consisting Of Old Heroic Ballads Songs And Other Pieces Of Our Earlier Poets Chiefly Of The Lyric Kind
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date..
Author | : Thomas Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1765 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Author | : Thomas Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1765 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Author | : Thomas Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon
Author | : Steve Newman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812202937 |
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.
The Making of Percy's Reliques
Author | : Nick Groom |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198184591 |
Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism
Author | : Joanne Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191648272 |
In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This 'medievalism' led, for instance, to the rituals and ornament of the Medieval Catholic church being reintroduced to Anglicanism. It led to the Saxon Witan being celebrated as a prototypical representative parliament. It resulted in Viking raiders being acclaimed as the forefathers of the British navy. And it encouraged innumerable nineteenth-century men to cultivate the superlative beards we now think of as typically 'Victorian'—in an attempt to emulate their Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Different facets of medieval life, and different periods before the Renaissance, were utilized in nineteenth-century Britain for divergent political and cultural agendas. Medievalism also became a dominant mode in Victorian art and architecture, with 75 per cent of churches in England built on a Gothic rather than a classical model. And it was pervasive in a wide variety of literary forms, from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse to triple-decker novels. Medievalism even transformed nineteenth-century domesticity: while only a minority added moats and portcullises to their homes, the medieval-style textiles produced by Morris and Co. decorated many affluent drawing rooms. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism is the first work to examine in full the fascinating phenomenon of 'medievalism' in Victorian Britain. Covering art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, music, and social reform, the Handbook also surveys earlier forms of antiquarianism that established the groundwork for Victorian movements. In addition, this collection addresses the international context, by mapping the spread of medievalism across Europe, South America, and India, amongst other places.