From Song to Print

Romantic Pseudo-Songs

T. Hoagwood

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780230609839
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230105706
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: German Language
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern poetry of song), this book explores the typographical simulation of music and oral poetry during the nineteenth century. Original and innovative, this work shows how the musical writings of Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Keats, evoke antique cultures and ancient settings while offering a critique of their own imitative forms and the modern, commercial context in which they appear.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Romantic-Period Poetry and the “Sweet Power of Song”
• 2 Sir Walter Scott, "Ballad Deception," and Romantic Pseudo-Songs
• 3 The "Cool Medium" of Sydney Owenson's The Lay of an Irish Harp
• 4 Contradictory Arts: Moore's Irish Melodies
• 5 "It Gave Them Virtues Not Their Own": Byron's Hebrew Melodies
• Conclusion: L.E.L.'s Pseudo-Songs and the End of Romanticism
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index