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"The Return of the Dead in Ballad Literature". The Sewanee Review. 20 (3): 342– 365. ISSN 0037-3052. JSTOR 27532553.. Greg, Walter Wilson (1899). "English Translations of 'Lenore' – A contribution to the history of the literary relations of the Romantic Revival". The Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature. 2 (5): 13– 26. ISSN 2047-1203.
"On Springfield Mountain" or "Springfield Mountain" (Laws G16) [1] is an American ballad which recounts the tragic death of a young man who is bitten by a rattlesnake while mowing a field. [2] Historically, the song refers to the death of Timothy Merrick, who was recorded to have died on August 7, 1761, in Wilbraham, Massachusetts by snakebite .
Springfield Mountain, another cautionary folk ballad situated in New England, about a boy who is bitten by a rattlesnake. The two ballads are often cited together as examples of narrative verse representative of obituary tradition. Frozen Charlotte, a porcelain doll named after the ballad.
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.
Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington (Roud 59, Child 91) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [1] Francis James Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. [ 2 ] The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant (variant C) is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston".
Several Scandinavian variants exist: the Swedish "Skön Anna" and the Danish "Skjön Anna" (DgF 258).In them, the hero is a man who has newly become king, after the death of his father; his long-term mistress, Anna or Anneck, tries to get him to make her his wife, and the queen mother supports her.
By the seventeenth century, minstrelsy had evolved into ballads whose authors wrote on a variety of topics. The authors could then have their ballads printed and distributed. Printers used a single piece of paper known as a broadside, hence the name broadside ballads. [3] It was common for ballads to have crude woodcuts at the top of a ...
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.