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Poor Law Melodies and Other Poems
Bradshaw's Journal
The Songs of the Wilsons [i.e. of M. T. and A. Wilson]: with a Memoir of the Family and Several Additional Songs Never Before Published
Author: John Harland (Antiquary.)
Publisher:
Published: 1865
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The songs of the Wilsons: with a memoir of the family, ed. by J. Harland
Catalogue of the Books in the Reference Department
Author: Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 646
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Festive Wreath; a Collection of Original Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting, Held in Manchester, March 24th 1842 ... Edited by J. B. Rogerson
Song and Democratic Culture in Britain
Author: Ian Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1317357736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium. It triggered controversy: some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that ‘such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book’. The author discusses the way in which the popular song, from Victorian times onwards, has been forced by the entertainment industry out of its roots in popular culture, to become a blander form of art with minimal critical potential. The book ends by considering the possibilities for a continued flourishing of a genuine popular song culture in an electronic age. It has become a standard title in bibliographies and curricula. Much has changed since 1983, not least in music; but this then innovative book still has a lot to say about popular song in its social and historical context.
The Hatred of Poetry
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0865478201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame
Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1800643713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady’s Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and Hungarian cultures. Part two scrutinizes the reception and impact of the poem with reference to modern European and American literature, including works by the Nobel prize-winner Anatole France, professor-poet Katharine Lee Bates, philosopher-historian Henry Adams and poet W.H. Auden. This innovative collection of sources introduces readers to many previously untranslated texts, and invites them to explore the journey of Our Lady’s Tumbler across both sides of the Atlantic. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings will benefit scholars and students alike. The short introductions and numerous annotations shed light on unusual beliefs and practices of the past, making the readings accessible to anyone with an interest in the arts and an openness to the Middle Ages.
