The Romantics and the May Day TraditionAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 153 páginas It is the aim of this study to explore literary responses to the customs associated with May Day alongside antiquarian material in order to present the beginnings of an account of the variety of attitudes to folklore expressed by Romantic-era writers. |
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The Lake Poets | 27 |
Leigh Hunt and May Day | 69 |
William Blake | 89 |
John Clare and Common Fame | 115 |
Conclusion | 135 |
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Términos y frases comunes
antiquarian argues aristocratic associated authenticity Blake Blake's Book bourgeois public sphere boys Brand century child chimney sweeps classical Coleridge common culture common fame common sphere concerned connection contemporary context customary culture dance Day customs Day festival decline Dickens discourse discussion disguise England English Eric Robinson Experience flowers folklore folklorists garlands green coronal Habermas Habermas's Hone Hunt's Ibid Idle Shepherd-Boys implies interest Intimations Ode J.H. Leigh Hunt Joan John Clare Lake District Lamb laments Leigh Hunt Lubin Lyrical Ballads Mark Storey May-Day maypole narrator natural world nevertheless Observations Oxford University Press paradise pastoral play poem poet Poetical poetry political popular culture Prelude revival Robert Southey role Romantic rural ritual Samuel Taylor Coleridge season shepherds significance social Songs of Innocence Southey's Spenser spring suggests sweet symbolism tradition tree understanding urban Village Minstrel vols London Wat Tyler William William Hone William Wordsworth Wordsworth writing
Pasajes populares
Página 143 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.