Table of 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.