Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925
by
Daniel Karlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
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...