Author: Daniel Karlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192510746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Street Songs
Author: Daniel Karlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192510746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192510746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Grandaddy's Street Songs: Granddaddy's Street Songs
Author: Monalisa Degross
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A grandfather vividly describes to his grandson a typical day from his youth, when he worked as a peddler selling fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon throughout the city.
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A grandfather vividly describes to his grandson a typical day from his youth, when he worked as a peddler selling fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon throughout the city.
“The” Illustrated London News
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Music and Morals
Author: Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher:
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Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: J. A. Fuller Maitland
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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The Song of a Tramp, and Other Poems
Author: Constance Morgan
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Songs of Harvard
Author: Lloyd Adams Noble
Publisher:
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Category : Songbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Songbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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How to Sell Manuscripts
Author: James Irving
Publisher:
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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