Street Songs: Writers and Urban Songs and Cries, 1800-1925

by Daniel Karlin

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe ', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198792352
• ISBN13: 9780198792352
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"