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4 days ago · France, Denmark, Germany, Russia, Greece, and Spain, as well as England and Scotland, possess impressive ballad collections. At least one-third of the 300 extant English and Scottish ballads have counterparts in one or several of these continental balladries, particularly those of Scandinavia.
2 days ago · The poems are written in ballad style and reveal the obsessive concerns that Lorca and all people face during life’s journey. The poems would “tell of the gypsies as a race, to make known the actions, beliefs, values, superstition, and psychology of a persecuted minority about whom the world was woefully ignorant” (Larkins 14).
3 days ago · The Meaning Behind The Song: Barbara Allen by Ed McCurdy. Barbara Allen is a timeless folk ballad that has captured the hearts and imaginations of listeners for centuries. This hauntingly beautiful song tells a tale of unrequited love, heartache, and eventual tragedy. Its roots can be traced back to the British Isles, where it originated as a ...
5 days ago · Although many of the best-known Robin Hood ballads are postmedieval, there is a core that can be confidently attributed to the medieval period. These are Robin Hood and the Monk , Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne , Robin Hood and the Potter , and the Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode .
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5 days ago · The Ballad of Mulan is a feature-length narrative poem epic by an anonymous woman poet in the Northern Wei (386-534) in the Northern Dynasties Period (386-581) in China. The Northern Dynasties in China were characterized by fighting among different nomadic tribes in North China and their invasion, dominance and rule over indigenous Chinese Han ...
2 days ago · Ballad-writer, horseman, bushman, overlander, squatter—he helped to make the Australian legend. Yet, in his lifetime, he was a living part of that legend in that, with the rare touch of the genuine folk-poet, and in words that seemed as natural as breathing, he made a balladry of the scattered lives of back-country Australians and ...
4 days ago · The present text, despite the unlucky hiatus after st. 35, is a splendid example of an English ballad, which cannot be earlier than the sixteenth century.
