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Books on: literary ballad

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The British Literary Ballad: A Study in Poetic Imitation

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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and broadside ballads of similar type...influences on the literary ballad. As Chart B indicates, the literary balladist will...matter. Thus a literary ballad may display influences...current events. BALLADS OF THE SUPERNATURAL...
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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

Collections: Entire Library

...version of "Edward" . Ballad lines have infiltrated...themes and plots, while ballad technique, with its...exercised a far-reaching literary influence. Until the...more than dramatized ballads. As might have been...the revival of the ballad in the eighteenth century...out analogies between literary and popular poems...
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The Broadside Ballad: A Study in Orgins and Meaning

Book by Leslie Shepard; H. Jenkins, 1962

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History and criticism, Broadsides

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Broadside Ballad, the Literary Ballad, and the Drawing-room Ballad. These divisions...included traditional ballads side by side with...the traditional ballad is not a fixed form...In the case of Literary Ballads, the authors of...
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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

...cruelty and violence that the ballads are full of; in the following...be assigned not only to the ballad but also to some folklore...gave the traditional Russian ballad the power to transform itself...between the traditional popular ballad, the literary ballad which was flourishing...
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Poetic Origins and the Ballad

Book by Louise Pound; The Macmillan Company, 1921

Subjects:

Ballads

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

dered ballad by the common activity...affirm that the ballad is the earliest...only later become ballads by developing complexity...of the Robin Hood ballads -- are of later...and climax as a literary ballad like Rossettis Sister...

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Journal Articles on: literary ballad

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"The Purest English": Ballads and the English Literary Dialect

Journal article by Nick Groom; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 47, 2006

Subjects:

Folklore, Influence, Literary criticism, Noise, Social change

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Purest English": Ballads and the English Literary Dialect by Nick Groom Sir, a ballad-singer is a higher...editing of later ballad collections and...a collection of ballads, songs, romances...seasoned with Percys literary-antiquarian annotation...travel to hear ballad singers in his...minor exceptions, ballads taken from singers...immediate successors: literary antiquarians in...
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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

...homogenized and pasteurized ballad of mid-century renown...Spasmodics and the street ballad-mongers, poets who...Unlike Victorian street ballads, most middle-brow literary ballads--such as...ballad poetry (The Ballad Revival: Studies in...between street and literary ballads, see J. S. Bratton...
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From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's Reputation and the Problem of Literary Debt

Journal article by Ashley J. Cross; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 40, 2001

Subjects:

Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Robinson, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Romanticism--Analysis, Women authors--Conduct of life, Wordsworth, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales...and the problem of literary debt by Ashley J...weight to Lyrical Ballads and created a sense of literary debt between her...entanglement of literary debt among the three...Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, and try to create...authorial presence (the ballad questioner so central...
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The Last Quatrain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ends of Ballads

Journal article by Karen Jackson Ford; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 56, 2010

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Works, Ballads--Criticism and interpretation, Brooks, Gwendolyn--Criticism and interpretation, Brooks, Gwendolyn--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...interview, she reads an early ballad, "when Mrs. Martins Booker...poems almost inadvertently as ballads: "I believe all those elements literary language, rich imagery...expressions can be included in a ballad that people who feel they...ordinary people who were not literary minded, read like the very...
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Ironizing Prosody in John Davidson's "A Ballad in Blank Verse"

Journal article by Linda K. Hughes; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 149, 2011

Subjects:

A Ballad in Blank Verse (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Davidson, John--Criticism and interpretation, Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...produce. For old ballads, as a class...Histories of the ballad, then, opened...national identity upon literary forms by emphasizing...supernatural or romantic ballads unfolding deeds...blank verse, the ballad emerges as at once...foundation of English literary greatness and a...E. Aytouns "Ballads as an example of the failure of high literary ability to dedoggerelise ballad metre thoroughly...

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Magazine Articles on: literary ballad

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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

...expressed through the ballads and the `ideal types...ploughman. Walter Scotts literary entrepreneurship made...of the poem was The Ballad of the General Strike...everyone agreed. His literary ally Lewis Grassic Gibbon...decades. The Conservative literary magus T.S. Eliot...
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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

Subjects:

Instrumental music, Personal relationships, Poetry

Collections: Entire Library

...them, however, were simple ballads. Besides providing relatively...lies Boyces setting of the ballad When Fanny blooming fair...a farce in the manner of a ballad-opera, The rival captains...well acquainted with leading literary figures of his day such as...refers in passing to Boyces ballad: Many yet remember the elegant...
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The Ballad of JT Liar: Writing about His Abusive Background as a Teen Hustler, JT LeRoy Became the Queer Hipsters' Darling. Now It Turns out LeRoy Was a Fake. Dave White, Who Has Covered LeRoy for This Magazine, Reflects on Being Punk'd

Magazine article by Dave White; The Advocate, February 28, 2006

Subjects:

Authors--Behavior, Gay men--Behavior, Writers--Behavior

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The Ballad of JT Liar: Writing about His Abusive...former teenage prostitute, appeared on the literary scene in the 1990s and, after the publication...most innovative, artful, and maddening literary hoaxes of all time. And I was one of...
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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...of the Green Man as a motif of pagan survival was uncontroversial. The literary critic John Speirs interpreted the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the...
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Up from the Mississippi Delta: The Brutal 1955 Murder of Emmett till, Which Helped Spark the Civil Rights Movement, Casts Long, Dark Shadows on Three New Theatre Works

Magazine article by Hancock Carl Rux; American Theatre, Vol. 25, September 2008

Subjects:

All Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Play), Civil rights activists--Portrayals, Civil rights workers--Portrayals, Murder--Portrayals, The Ballad of Emmett Till (Play), Till, Emmett--Portrayals

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...Theatre produced playwright Ifa Bayezas The Ballad of Emmett Till, directed by Oz Scott...Ifa Bayezas jazz-infused play The Ballad of Emmett Till was developed in the Goodmans...Movement. Over 10 years in the making, The Ballad of Emmett Till began as a one-act and...

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Newspaper Articles on: literary ballad

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Ballad of a Lost Burns; Find Dispelsmyth That Scott Was Jealous of Bard

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 12, 2010

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

Ballad of a Lost Burns; Find Dispelsmyth...discovery, which has excited the literary world, is the latest artefact...facultyowned collection of literary gems in the Sir Walter Scott...and Burns met briefly at a literary gathering in the winter of...
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Role of a Female Reiver Is Explored; Poet Brings Women in from the Ballad Sidelines

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 19, 2009

Subjects:

Poets, Women

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

...Poet Brings Women in from the Ballad Sidelines. Byline: Tony...Little was drawn to the Border Ballads and their stories of the raiding...7pm on November 26 at the Literary and Philosophical Society...storytellers and the keepers of the ballads. They were at the core of...explored the women in the Border Ballads.
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THE BOOKSHOP BAND; Mumford & Sons Are Leading Lights in the New Literary London Folk Scene That Everyone Wants to Join. Singer Marcus Mumford Talks Steinbeck and Shakespeare with Rick Pearson

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 11, 2009

Subjects:

Booksellers, Bookstores

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

...Leading Lights in the New Literary London Folk Scene That Everyone...to perform, Mumford has literary matters to attend to upstairs...oldfashioned and filled with literary references. Timshel, the guitar-led ballad they begin their set with...
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THE BIG BOOKS BRAIN TEASER; MARCUS BERKMANN'S Literary Quiz of the Year

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 31, 2010

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

...BRAIN TEASER; MARCUS BERKMANNS Literary Quiz of the Year. YOUR STARTERS...past year was a big one for literary anniversaries, but then most...1960, The Bachelors and The Ballad of Peckham rye. Who? 8...a postcard to: Daily Mail Literary Quiz, Books Pages, Daily...
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Author Oates to Be Honored at Literary Festival

Newspaper article by Nancy Gier; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 16, 2006

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Festivals

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

...Author Oates to Be Honored at Literary Festival. by Nancy Gier Byline...Gier Daily Herald Staff Writer Literary luminary Joyce Carol Oates...authors Sunday during the Midwest Literary Festival in Aurora. The author...novel is an attempt to write a ballad that keeps repeating. The...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: literary ballad

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Ballad

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Dylan wrote their own ballads. The Literary Ballad The literary ballad is a narrative...C. Fowler, A Literary History of the Popular...H. Bronson, The Ballad as Song (1969...The Oxford Book of Ballads (1982); A. B...
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Jacobites

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ceased to be a serious political force. Bibliography Jacobite activities gave rise to much ballad literature and were the theme of such later literary works as Sir Walter Scotts Rob Roy, Waverley, and Redgauntlet, W. Thackerays Henry Esmond...
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Wilde, Oscar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Goldsmith to have both dramatic and literary merit. He studied at Trinity...periodicals, but his active literary career began with the publication...his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and the apology published by his literary executor as De Profundis...
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Romanticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...many critics now date English literary romanticism from the publication...Wordsworth and Coleridge s Lyrical Ballads (1798). In the preface...natural everyday diction in literary works. Coleridge emphasized...discounted adherence to arbitrary literary rules. Such English romantic...intermezzo, nocturne, ballad, and cappriccio, especially...
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Yugoslav Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...The Serbian and Croatian literary languages are similar and generally...1702 60), wrote his poems in ballad and folk style, while the...Karadzic . They developed a literary language based on popular speech...Twentieth Century: A Variety of Literary Movements During the first...

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