Ballads

As will be seen from the few examples I have given in the following pages, or better still from a perusal of the pamphlets, the value as literature of Borrow's Ballads as we now know them is immeasurably higher than that hitherto placed upon them by critics who had no material upon which to form their judgment beyond the _Romantic Ballads_, _Targum_, and

A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Thomas James Wise 1898

The choice of phrases in Ballads and Songs, and perhaps more in serious pieces, is of much importance; a common use of old worn out words I do not like, such as erst, whilom, and a thousand more; and yet to take up and use

Letter 94 2009

It can be argued that Lyrical Ballads is the most significant book of poetry published in the last 200 years.

Introduction 1999

His “Romantic Ballads from the Danish,” printed by

George Borrow in East Anglia 1904

I totally forgot how fucking good Nick Cave's Murder Ballads is (are?).

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Just a Quick Note. 2005

I totally forgot how fucking good Nick Cave's Murder Ballads is (are?).

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: November 2005 Archives 2005

In one of the works in which the Ballads was advertised (the Town and Country Friend and Physician), he recommended reading as the only therapy for ailments of the mind.

Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999

What has come down to us is "a sort of patchwork epic," as Prescott called the Ballads of the Cid, a popular epopee in all its native roughness, wild phantasy and extravagance of deed and description as it developed during successive generations.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

Sergeant Lee has both composed and illustrated a volume of war-poems entitled Ballads of Battle.

Occasional Notes 1917

These include films by Giuliano Montaldo and Sidney Lumet, music by Ruth Crawford (Seeger), Marc Blitzstein and Woody Guthrie (who recorded an album about the men in 1960, called "Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti") and visual art by Ben Shahn, Rockwell Kent and Gutzon Borglum, among others.

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