Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.

Ballads were originally composed to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the ' Lyrical Ballads '; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The Child Ballads were published in five volumes between 1882 and 1898.

Ballads were ritually sung at weddings and funerals, and sung informally for small groups of people at house parties as the food cooked and young children played.

Capitalizing on his victory of the American reality show, his Debut compilation was re-issued, and his second collection was also released in the same year, True Ballads, including some of his solo tracks, most of the cover songs which were already contained in his second studio album, and historical hits from the Spandau Ballet period.

The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads.

Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and 1840s, including the work of William B. Sandys ' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), William Chappell, A Collection of National English Airs ( 1838 ) and Robert Bell's Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England ( 1846 ).

Also important were occasional radio shows, such as Lomax ’ s Ballads and Blues, MacColl ’ s Radio-ballads ( 1958 – 64 ) and The Song Carriers ( 1968 ).

Border ballads were a major part of those collected by Francis James Child and make up most of the sixth volume of his ten volume collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 98 ).

The Arizona Rangers were featured in the song, " Big Iron ", in Western singer Marty Robbins ' album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.

The Almanacs also issued two albums of traditional folk songs with no political content in 1941: an album of sea chanteys, Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads ( sea chanteys, as was well known, being Franklin Roosevelt's favorite kind of song ) and Sod-Buster Ballads, which were songs of the pioneers.

There are many of his compositions in Good Words, The Sunday Magazine, The Quiver and London Society, but his most important productions made for the Dalziel brothers were illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith, of Jean Ingelow's poems, * Robert Buchanan's Ballads of the Affections, and the Arabian Nights.

Rudyard Kipling published the poem Tommy ( part of the Barrack-Room Ballads, which were dedicated " To T. A.

The relics were not always very ancient, as many of the ballads dated from only the 17th century ( e. g. the Bagford Ballads or The Dragon of Wantley in the Percy Folio ), and so what began as an antiquarian movement soon became a folk movement.

Both ballads were collected in Thomas Percy's Reliques and the first of the ballads in Francis James Child's Child Ballads.

The lyrics were rewritten for clarity by one George Coward, a Carlisle bookseller, and approved by Graves for a book of Cumberland songs titled Songs and Ballads of Cumberland published in 1866.

The Bagford Ballads were English ballads collected by John Bagford ( 1651-1716 ) for Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford.

After Harley's death, the Bagford Ballads were obtained by the Duke of Roxburge, and they were finally published at large by the Ballad Society in 1878.

Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads were published in 1892, and Bellamy started setting them to music in 1973.

According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.

In 1995, she recorded a duet of American folk song " Henry Lee " with partner Nick Cave and was also featured on the Bob Dylan cover " Death is Not the End ," both released on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ' Murder Ballads ( 1996 ) and in the same year, sang the theme song, " Who Will Love Me Now?

The song was also included on A. L. Lloyd's 1955 album The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, using Kidson's melody, but the version using the melody later developed by Simon & Garfunkel in " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " was first recorded on a 1956 album, English Folk Songs, by Audrey Coppard.

About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, from Joseph Cottle of Bristol.

Dusty recorded not only songs written by himself and other fellow Australian performers but also classic Australian poems by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, with new tunes to call attention to the old ' Bush Ballads.

Lord studied not only field recordings of Serbian heroic epics sung to the gusle, and the Homeric epics, but also Beowulf, Gilgamesh, The Song of Roland, and the Anglo-Scottish Child Ballads.

Kemble also published a collection of his writings Ods, Lyrical Ballads and Poems ( 1809 ).

However, he also survives as a worthy target for a better poet: Sir William Schwenk Gilbert in his Bab Ballads.

See also: Category: Ballads by genre

During the summer of 1999, while on its own " Rock Never Stops Tour " ( which included Ted Nugent and Night Ranger ), Slaughter enjoyed a brief commercial resurgence, with the "# 1 Track " on the VH-1 CD " Power Ballads " with " Fly To The Angels ", " Up All Night " became the "# 1 Track " on Rhino Records " Hard Hitters ," and also took part in the Summer 2000 " Poison, Cinderella, Dokken and Slaughter " tour.

It is also taken as his longer-term reaction and comment on William Wordsworth, earlier ( at the time of Lyrical Ballads ) his close collaborator.

The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry set the stage not only for Robert Burns, but also for Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

He also continued to record, releasing albums such as New Ballads ( 1970 ), Pastorale ( 1971 ), the country-rock outing McKuen Country ( 1976 ).

1974 also saw the release of his groundbreaking album, Elektronik Türküler (" Electronic Ballads ").

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

The Ezhavas are one of the major Hindu communities like Nairs, both the communities are equally distributed all over the Kerala in Kerala. The Ezhavas also had, like Nairs of Kerala, a martial nobility ( Thiyya-Chekavar ) as evident from Northern Ballads.

This poem, like many in Lyrical Ballads also concerns itself with the psychological insights of the mother of the idiot boy showing her clear concern for her child.

In addition to compiling, Smith also recorded music: Allen Ginsberg's ( who he also lived with for a while in the 90's ) long player New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs released in 1981 was captured by Smith at the Hotel Chelsea in 1973.

It was also released on the reissue of the album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs ( 1959 ) by Marty Robbins who performed this song in the opening credits of this film.

It featured many popular Child Ballads of the day, such as " Mary Hamilton " and was recorded in only four days in the ballroom of New York City's Manhattan Towers Hotel.

Beginning in 1999, Monster Ballads, a series of compilation albums that feature popular power ballads, usually from the glam metal genre, capitalized on the nostalgia, with the first volume going platinum.

Of the Columbia River Ballads " Roll on, Columbia ", which he set to a modified version of Huddie Ledbetter's " Goodnight, Irene ", was by far the most popular.

Barzaz Breiz ( in modern spelling Barzhaz Breizh, meaning " Ballads of Brittany ": Barz is the equivalent of " bard " and Breiz means " Brittany ") is a collection of Breton popular songs collected by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué and published in 1839.

" Sir Patrick Spens " is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads ( No. 58 ), and is of Scottish origin.

Barzaz Breizh, the " Ballads of Brittany ", ( literally, barzaz Breizh = bards of Brittany ) is a collection of Breton popular songs collected by La Villemarqué and published in 1839 ( revised and expanded edition 1845 ).

In the nudie-cartoon anthology Sex to Sexty, which included " Balled-Up Ballads "-- popular tunes with racy lyrics -- the following lines were written for " Marianne ":

Winner was especially popular for his ballads published under the pseudonym of Alice Hawthorne, which became known generically as " Hawthorne's Ballads ".

The humorous Bon Gaultier Ballads remained popular for a long time ; originally contributed to a magazine, they appeared in book form in 1845.