... “The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History’s Resistance to Balladry Corrected Dianne Dugaw University of Oregon Steve Newman. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular...

... Press 2020 musical elegy popular balladry female warrior heroine musicology folklore Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 2, April 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8218591 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 7 Transcendent Ephemera: Performing Deep Structure in Elegies, Ballads...

... 2 0 2 1 patriotic inspiration to a well-known figure from popular balladry: the cross-dressing, plebeian heroine who goes to war. Two fictionalized memoirs of female soldiers — Davies’ Life and Adven- tures and the anonymous The Female...

... house to house, upon solemn occasions, reciting heroick bal- ads [sic] and other popular episodes” in the sixteenth century. He conjec- tures that these later performers probably introduced the seventh note of the scale to these pentatonic melodies. Scots songs are works of genius, he declares...

..., rural, unlettered, untainted by modernity, posited by Cecil Sharp and his colleagues, whose existence has been so hard to dem- onstrate in any specific setting. Scholars like Peter Burke have insisted that “popular culture” is the common possession of all social classes, not just the poor...

.... Malcolm, 2:155, and quoted by Dianne Dugaw, Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1989), p. 125. 11. Malcolm, 2:164–65, 170, and quoted by Dugaw, pp. 125–26. 12. Warwick Wroth, The London Pleasure Gardens...

..., to contemporary poems by acquaintances, to personal letters. In spite of the variety of genres and subject matter represented, we can identify several thematic through lines. The most prominent, perhaps, is balladry. Wordsworth copied short excerpts of popular ballads that he encountered in the letters of Robert...