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.

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.

Ballads were also popular from the late 14th century onwards, including the Ballad of Chevy Chase and others describing the activities of Robin Hood.

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.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

While the poem was originally published in the collection of Lyrical Ballads, the 1817 version was published in his collection entitled Sibylline Leaves ( see 1817 in poetry ).

Robbins ' song " Big Iron ", originally released on his 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, gained renewed popularity following its use in the video game Fallout: New Vegas.

* Axel Rudi Pell ( 1999 ) on the album The Ballads II ( originally a bonus track on the Japanese edition of the Black Moon Pyramid album )

" El Paso " is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959.

The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896.

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

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 ).

This was so successful that compilations of his verses from the paper, published as The Dagonet Ballads ( 1879 ) and Ballads of Babylon ( 1880 ), sold in hundreds of thousands of copies and were constantly in print during the next thirty years.

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.

" ( Some twentieth-century editions of More “ Bab ” Ballads included " Etiquette ," although Gilbert had not done so.

" Kenneth Rexroth said, on reading Eighteen Poems, " The reeling excitement of a poetry-intoxicated schoolboy smote the Philistine as hard a blow with one small book as Swinburne had with Poems and Ballads.

* Barrack Room Ballads, 1889, republished with additions at various times.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge ( with insights from Dorothy ) produced Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ), an important work in the English Romantic movement.

* Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems ( 1798 )

* Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems ( 1800 )

Chapter XIV describes the preparations with Wordsworth for their revolutionary collaboration Lyrical Ballads ( first edition 1798 ), for which Coleridge had contributed the more romantic, Gothic pieces including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.

Edward Guiliano even believes that a case can be made for a direct influence of Gilbert's Bab Ballads on the Snark, based on the fact that Carroll was well acquainted with the comic writing and the theatre of his age.

Singer-guitarist Dean Gitter's 1957 recording Ghost Ballads ( Riverside, RLP 12-636 ), folk songs with supernatural themes, was packaged with album art by Addams showing a haunted house.

* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.

* Vonnegut collaborated with US composer Dave Soldier for a CD titled Ice-9 Ballads, featuring nine songs with lyrics taken from Cat's Cradle.

With the success of " Gypsy Ballads ", came an estrangement from Dali and the breakdown of a love affair with sculptor Emilio Soriano Aladrén.

For example, the Harper Hall is responsible for the arts ( specifically music ) and teaching young children the Teaching Ballads, which provide them with basic knowledge.

There is a CD of music relating to the important Teaching Ballads and the work of Masterharper Robinton, made in 1998 by Anglo-Alaskan duo Tania Opland and Mike Freeman in collaboration with Anne McCaffrey at her request.

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?

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.

Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and outlandish vocals.

As it turned out, a third edition never emerged and instead Coleridge's next publication was the monumentally influential Lyrical Ballads co-published with Wordsworth.

* 1931: " Lied der roten Flieger " ( after Kirsanow ); Four Songs ( after Frank, Weinert ) from the film Niemandsland '; Three Songs from the film Kuhle Wampe ( texts of Brecht ); " Ballad of the Pirates ", " Song of Mariken ", Four Ballads ( with Bertolt Brecht ); Suite No. 2, Op.