Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve Newman "Elegant and original in its formulations, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon provides a new starting place for thinking about the presence and meanings of the ballad within modern poetics."--Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary, University of London "A timely contribution to the growing area of interest in popular culture, particularly as it affects the long eighteenth century."--Murray Pittock, University of Manchester The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly...