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.

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.

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.

In early 2008, Martin was approached, again, by Sony Japan to do a project wherein he would cover ( translated ) famous Japanese Ballads sung by women.

# Pete Seeger, American Favorite Ballads: Tunes and Songs as sung by Pete Seeger ( 1961 ), p. 56, " Froggie Went A-Courtin '" ( 1 text, 1 tune )

* Gardner, Martin, " The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey ", New York: Clarkson Potter.

Ballads are the oldest existing form of the Robin Hood legends, although none of them are recorded at the time of the first allusions to him, and many are much later.

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

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.

Child's monumental final collection was published postumously as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, at first in ten parts ( 1882 – 1898 ) and then in five quarto volumes, and for a long time was the authoritative treasury of their subject.

* Ballads of the Fleet and other Poems at Internet Archive

( 36 variations on the Sergio Ortega song El pueblo unido jamás será vencido ), a set of virtuosic piano variations written as a companion piece to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations ; Coming Together, which is a setting of letters from Sam Melville, an inmate at Attica State Prison, at the time of the famous riots there ( 1971 ); North American Ballads ; Night Crossing with Fisherman ; Fougues ; Fantasia and Sonata ; The Price of Oil, and Le Silence des Espaces Infinis, both of which use graphical notation ; Les Moutons de Panurge ; and the Antigone-Legend, which features a principled opposition to the policies of the State, and which was premiered on the night that the United States bombed Libya in April 1986 ( ibid ).

Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).

The company ’ s first success at publishing came in 1892 with the publication of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads.

* Lyrical Ballads available at Internet Archive

Already at his Californian consular post, he would write and publish another book of verse, Poemas, Sonetos e Baladas (" Poems, Sonnets and Ballads ").

* Fascimile of the c. 1814 broadside of " The Mountains High " which is quoted above, at the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Project

* Fascimile of an undated 19th century broadside under the title " Reynardine " at the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Project.

* Two paintings of Reynardine as a werefox may be seen at the webpage for Kentucky artist Daniel Dutton's " Ballads of the Barefoot Mind ".

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

* Bagford Ballads at the Internet Archive: Division 1, Division 2

* Sir Frederick Madden ’ s Collection of Broadside Ballads, at Cambridge University Library, is possibly the largest collection from London and provincial presses between 1775 and 1850, with earlier 18th-century garlands and Irish volumes.

* Ballads and other verses, by James T. Fields at the University of Michigan Library

The Kennedy Corridos: A Study of the Ballads of a Mexican American Hero ( Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1978 )

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.