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... ballad , ' Henry and Emma ' , which Johnson the High Churchman thought improper . It explains why Isaac Watts , not ... Ballads A very different matter is the other body of.
... ballad , ' Henry and Emma ' , which Johnson the High Churchman thought improper . It explains why Isaac Watts , not ... Ballads A very different matter is the other body of.
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... ballad , which owed nothing to precedents in Latin or Greek . In the eighteenth century the ballad was understood to be at least as much lyric as narrative , as we see when John Gay calls his masterpiece ' a ballad - opera ' . However ...
... ballad , which owed nothing to precedents in Latin or Greek . In the eighteenth century the ballad was understood to be at least as much lyric as narrative , as we see when John Gay calls his masterpiece ' a ballad - opera ' . However ...
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... ballad first appeared in The What D'Ye Call It , produced at Drury Lane in 1715 , when it caused a breach between Gay and Richard Steele , who detected in the piece a Tory parody of Addison's heroic tragedy , Cato . It is indeed a ...
... ballad first appeared in The What D'Ye Call It , produced at Drury Lane in 1715 , when it caused a breach between Gay and Richard Steele , who detected in the piece a Tory parody of Addison's heroic tragedy , Cato . It is indeed a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
Copyright | |
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