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English Folk Poetry - Structure and Meaning (Hardcover)
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English Folk Poetry - Structure and Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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Drawing on the long tradition of folklore study, Roger deV. Renwick
examines three genres: traditional English folksongs, local songs
of regional interest, and working-class poetry. In the span of time
that extends from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, he finds
govern world views underlying a large sampling of poems related by
common language, imagery, or topic, and then shows how these world
views relate to the everyday lives and beliefs of the poetry's
makers and users. There is, in addition, a pattern of historical
continuity that links the rural folksongs of the eighteenth century
with the part-rural, part-urban local songs of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, and with the fully urban working-class poetry
of the present day. English Folk Poetry is an immensely important
contribution to folklore scholarship in its examination of
contemporary working-class poetry, in its approach to questions of
tacit meaning, and in its exploration of the relationship of
inferential meanings to real, everyday lives.
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