TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renwick,Roger deV
TI  - English Folk Poetry: Structure and Meaning 
T2  - Publications of the American Folklore Society
SN  - 9780812277777
AV  - PR976 
U1  - 398.2/0941 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Folk poetry, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Introduction: English Folk Poetry --; 1. “The Bold Fisherman” --; 2. The Semiotics of Sexual Liaisons --; 3. The Local Song in Yorkshire --; 4. An Ethos for A Regional Culture --; 5. Local Poetry and Modalities of Experience --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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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