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Books on: british ballad

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The Ballad Tree: A Study of British and American Ballads, Their Folklore, Verse and Music, Together with Sixty Traditional Ballads and Their Tunes

Book by Evelyn Kendrick Wells; Ronald Press, 1950

Subjects:

Ballads, English--Great Britain, Ballads, English--Great Britain--History And Criticism, Ballads, English--United States, Ballads, English--United States--History And Criticism

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...to life the quality of the British ballad in England and Scotland...155 ; a rare Border Raid ballad, "Archie o Cawfield" 188...Grundtvig, that "the sources of British ballads are dried up forever." 1 Ballad criticism in any age tends...
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The British Literary Ballad: A Study in Poetic Imitation

Book by G. Malcolm Laws Jr.; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972

Subjects:

Ballads, English--Great Britain--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Irishman he would hear ballads in inns and taverns...familiar with published ballad collections. Some...of balladry in the British Isles is necessary...in the old printed ballads the excitement and...and substance. The British ballad, then, in one form...generally familiar to British poets since its inception...
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The Critics & the Ballad

Book by Macedward E. Leach, Tristram P. Coffin; Southern Illinois University Press, 1961

Subjects:

Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism, Folk songs, American--History and criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1700. Previous to that date British ballad versions existed...may or may not have been a ballad; in the Complaynte of Scotland...which twenty seem to be of British folk-character, which were...linked up with traditional ballads, and among the "sangis...fifteenth century we have no ballad text of an indubitably traditional...until 1500 the evidences of ballads in oral usage as folk-songs...
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The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story

Book by John Anthony Scott; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Subjects:

Ballads, English--United States, Ballads, English--United States--History And Criticism, Folk Music--United States--History And Criticism, Folk Songs, English--United States, Folk Songs, English--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...attention to the evolution of ballad style. David Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk (London: Routledge...1972), is a study of the ballads role in the regional tradition of that most fertile of British ballad areas, northeastern Scotland...
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The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures

Book by Philip E. Bennett, Richard Firth Green; Ropopi, 2004

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History And Criticism, Ballads--Europe--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...rhetorical questions are not simply ballad formula but the hallmarks of...of the Number Three In the ballad, as in the popular proverb...talking birds and trees in Dutch ballads see van Duyse 12 and 44 and...350-2 For examples in the British ballad see Wimberly, Lowry Charles...

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Journal Articles on: british ballad

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On Cultural Neoformalism, Spasmodic Poetry, and the Victorian Ballad

Journal article by Jason R. Rudy; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

Subjects:

Ballads--Criticism and interpretation, Blank verse--Criticism and interpretation, British poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Criticism--Innovations, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Literary criticism--Innovations, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...predictable Victorian ballad offers just the...idealized vision of the British nation. Through...formal regularity, ballads insist on "law...central place in the British psyche from the...revised editions of ballads published regularly...Motherwell writes of ballad poetry as nothing...the songs of the British people, a notion...of Old English ballads: "Song and ballad have had their...
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A. L. Lloyd and Reynardine: Authenticity and Authorship in the Afterlife of a British Broadside Ballad

Journal article by Stephen D. Winick; Folklore, Vol. 115, 2004

Subjects:

Folk literature--Research, Folklore--Research

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Library. Bodleian Ballad Catalogue. Harding...G. "More Indiana Ballads and Songs." Southern...M. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales. Part...American Balladry From British Broadsides. Philadelphia...1957. --. The British Literary Ballad: A Study in Poetic...William Roy, ed. Ballads and Sea Songs from...
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Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles

Journal article by Ruth Perry; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 47, 2006

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European history, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Incest Ballads of the British Isles by Ruth Perry...famously wrote about ballads in three Spectator...the beauties of "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" and...into two separate ballads, probably does tell...Brand" as a separate ballad.19 There are quite a few other ballads about incest collected...that occurred in the British Isles. Court records...
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Broadside Ballads: Songs from the Streets, Taverns, Theatres and Countryside of 17th-Century England

Journal article by Alexandra Franklin; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Broadside Ballads: Songs from the Streets, Taverns, Theatres and Countryside of 17th-century England (Book)--Book reviews

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...you proceed to bawdy ballads full of double entendres...character singing a ballad might signify the low...was used for several ballads on political themes...relating to political ballads inevitably leads to...Claude M. Simpsons The British Broadside Ballad and its Music (1966...
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A Note on One of the Earliest Gothic Ballads: Frank Sayers's "Sir Egwin"

Journal article by Douglass H. Thomson; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 46, 2010

Subjects:

Ballads--Criticism and interpretation, Sayers, Frank--Criticism and interpretation, Sir Egwin (Ballad)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...claiming a kinship with British poetry, especially...Monthly Magazine; the ballad also appears later in...Sayerss and Taylors ballads. In choosing a "form...piece was taken from a ballad translated by an ingenious...interest in writing ballads (for the story of this...Imitations of the Ancient Ballad"). Finally, John...Danish, or even ancient British tribal cultures. My...

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Magazine Articles on: british ballad

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Thomas Philips, Lord Chesterfield and the Enigma of a Popular 18th-century Ballad by William Boyce: a New Conspiracy Theory

Magazine article by Ian Bartlett; Musical Times, Vol. 149, Spring 2008

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Instrumental music, Personal relationships, Poetry

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...of a Popular 18th-century Ballad by William Boyce: a New Conspiracy...repertoire was dominated by ballads - essentially lyrical, unsophisticated...them, however, were simple ballads. Besides providing relatively...lies Boyces setting of the ballad When Fanny blooming fair...song first appeared in The British Musical Miscellany, a vocal...
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Ballads of a Nation

Magazine article by Christopher Harvie; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999

Subjects:

Scotland--Politics and government, Scottish National Party--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to be expressed through the ballads and the `ideal types of the...bagpipe-playing heroes of the British Empire came with the Crimean...pivot of the poem was The Ballad of the General Strike, in...useful service-motor for British culture: enriching but not...arent `gude bairns, the ballad-makers of the nation will...
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Ballad of the Green Man: Richard Hayman Traces the Changing Significance of the Green Man, a Term Coined in the 1930s for a Medieval Image of a Face Sprouting Foliage, the Meaning of Which Has Transformed Itself across the Centuries

Magazine article by Richard Hayman; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010

Subjects:

Art objects--History, Icons--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Ballad of the Green Man: Richard Hayman Traces the Changing Significance of the...and Northampton St Peter, demonstrate how Green-Man carvings emerged in British churches. Northampton St Peter was built in the 1140s by Simon de St Lys...
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Arrested Development

Magazine article by Theodore Dalrymple; New Criterion, Vol. 20, June 2002

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Prisons--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wilde, Oscar--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...coarse-mouthed Doctor" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol who ... gloats...for execution--in a former British colony-was an alcoholic...am always accompanied by The Ballad of Reading Gaol--not literally...to come. I first heard The Ballad read over the radio when I...
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Cue the Music

Magazine article by Brittney Pescatore; Campaigns & Elections, Vol. 28, April 2007

Subjects:

Campaign songs--Evaluation, Electioneering--Management, Political ballads and songs--Evaluation, Political campaigns--Management, Political songs--Evaluation, Presidential candidates--Political activity

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...meeting, her intro song was "Right Here, Right Now" by British rockers Jesus Jones; her exit music was "You Aint Seen Nothing...convention this February was accompanied by "Rudy Cant Fail" from British punk-rockers The Clash. Its an interesting choice, considering...

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Newspaper Articles on: british ballad

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This Divisive Ballad Needs a Final Verse; Polarising: Hunger Striker Bobby Sands with Spy Denis Donaldson in Long Kesh

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

This Divisive Ballad Needs a Final Verse; Polarising...the place to its feetthe Ballad Of Bobby Sands. The locals...Street, the location of the British Embassyin Tehran, in honour...that the strikes had opened British eyesto the appalling vista...
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They've Gone from Ballad to Worse. REVIEW

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Theyve Gone from Ballad to Worse. REVIEW. Byline...however, are forgettable. The ballads have none of the magic of The...Georgia, Melua has just acquired British citizenship, but her singing...Cried For You, a touching ballad about bereavementand Halfway...her crystalline vocals. Her ballad Two Seconds, which appears...
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THE BOY WHO DIED LIKE A MAN; the Song Tells of Kevin Barry's '18 Summers' but the Truth of His Life Is Even More Affecting Than a Romantic Ballad

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 22, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...More Affecting Than a Romantic Ballad. Byline: by Turtle Bunbury...unit was ordered to raid a British army truck that was headed...commotion, a nearby detachment of British soldiers rushed to the scene...of 18 summers who, as the ballad goes, proudly held his head...
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The Ballad of Put-Upon Paul and Heather the Harassed; 'Gold-Digger' Taunts Spur McCartneys to Get Back at the Critics in Song

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 16, 2005

Subjects:

McCartney, Paul

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Ballad of Put-Upon Paul and Heather the Harassed...This is particularly written about the British newspapers because they dont get anything...actually worked with John Lennon on The Ballad of John and Yoko which is about how Lennon...
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One-Man Ballad Mixes Humour with a Thought-Provoking Plot

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), May 2, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

One-Man Ballad Mixes Humour with a Thought-Provoking...camp), Guevaras Motorcycle and Join The British Army. And snatches of a re-worked Black...and thought-provoking production. The Ballad of Malachy Mulligan returns to the Rock...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: british ballad

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Service, Robert William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of Glasgow. He went to Canada in 1897 and held odd jobs in British Columbia and at Whitehorse in the Yukon. His famous ballad "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" appeared in Songs of a Sourdough...Celebrations of the rough ways of Klondike life continued in Ballads of a Cheechako (1909) and in the novel The Trail of 98...
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LÓpez Y Planes, Vicente

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...under Jacques de Liniers against the British invaders. After the resignation of Rivadavia...among his poems are Triunfo argentino, a ballad celebrating the successful Argentine defense against the British, and a war song commemorating the triumph...
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Tracy, Honor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...pseud. of Lilbush Wingfield, 1913 89, British writer, b. Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk...a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with...Quiet End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979); her best-known...
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Middle English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Charlemagne, the legends of ancient Greece and Rome, and the British legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table...continued popular in the 15th cent., from which time the ballad also dates. The Fourteenth Century The poetry of the alliterative...
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Watkins, Vernon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

WATKINS, VERNON 1906 67, British poet, b. Maesteg, Wales, educated at Cambridge. Like his close...ecstatic acceptance of the world. Among his volumes of poetry are The Ballad of Mari Lwyd and Other Poems (1941), Selected Poems (1948...

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