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blake-172	Millar, Stephen R.	Kate Horgan, The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795	2016		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	1163	35	43	Drawing on the work of Maureen McLane, Horgan contends that ballads functioned in a similar fashion, defining them as a subcategory of song in opposition to the dominant narrative in which ballads are seen as being “constitutive of the poetry of the Romantic era” (23, quoting McLane), and shows how political songs often used the melodies of psalms. More importantly, Horgan offers much on the context in which Blake operated and sets out a compelling narrative on the interconnectedness between songs, psalms, and ballads, demonstrating the role of political songs in shaping political, literary, and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain.	cache/blake-172.htm	txt/blake-172.txt