Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.
Contents:
Why there 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 of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.
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