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Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads. Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"Child's collection was not the first of its kind; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) onwards. [4]
The ballad, though historically inaccurate, recounts the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last large-scale encounter between the Scottish and English armies. 173: Mary Hamilton: Mary Hamilton, servant to Queen of the Scots, Mary Stuart, has an affair with the king and becomes pregnant. Out of guilt, she casts her newborn into the sea.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a poem for children written by Ogden Nash. [1] A picture book of the 1936 poem with illustrations by Lynn M. Munsinger was published in 1995. [2][3] The poem has been described as "probably his most famous poem for kids". [4] In 1959, it inspired Leonard Lipton to write a poem that evolved into the song "Puff ...
Sir Patrick Spens remains one of the most anthologized of British popular ballads, partly because it exemplifies the traditional ballad form. The strength of this ballad, its emotional force, lies in its unadorned narrative which progresses rapidly to a tragic end that has been foreshadowed almost from the beginning.
Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children. Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes. Children have always enjoyed both works of poetry written for children and works of poetry intended for adults. In the West, as people's conception ...
A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the point ...
Robin Hood and Little John, by Louis Rhead, 1912. Robin Hood and Little John is Child ballad 125. It is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of ...
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century.