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.

The Bagford Ballads are generally folk compositions that document the last years of the Stuart reign in the close of the 17th century ( a subject that was not remote for Harley ).

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.

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

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.

# REDIRECT The Bagford Ballads

Bagford was originally a cobbler, but he became a book collector in his later years, and he assembled this set of ballads from the materials he had been collecting.

A life of Faithorne the elder is preserved in the British Museum among the papers of John Bagford, librarian to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and an intimate friend of Faithorne.

This specimen-sheet is preserved in the Bagford-collection in the British Museum, and can be dated 1715 or earlier because Bagford died in 1716.

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.

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.

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

Gilbert's Bab Ballads, Selkirk is used as a model for the English castaways:

Since Child died before writing a commentary on his work it is uncertain exactly how and why he differentiated the 305 ballads printed that would be published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

One prominent such effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century of the texts of over three hundred ballads in the English and Scots traditions ( called the Child Ballads ) most of which predated the sixteenth century.

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.

In his " Preface to Lyrical Ballads ", which is called the " manifesto " of English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems " experimental.

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

* September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.

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.

* 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.

In England — besides the ballad given in Thomas Percy's Reliques and reprinted in Francis James Child's English and Scotch Ballads ( 1st ed., viii.

* Percy, Thomas ( 1858 ) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets.

The birth of English Romanticism is often dated to the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

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.

The volumes on the works of Edmund Spenser ( five volumes, Boston, 1855 ) and the English and Scottish Ballads ( in eight small volumes, Boston, 1857 – 1858 ), Child edited himself.

Child's largest undertaking, however, grew out of the original English and Scottish Ballads volume in his British Poets series.

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.

Reviewing the new edition, Ian Olson notes that the rediscovered essay: gives considerable insight into Child ’ s thinking after he had published his " first go " of English and Scottish Ballads in 1857-59 and was in the process of researching and reconsidering his last great work.

It may not be Child ’ s " final statement " that we all wish he had lived to make, but it comes close in many ways, and nicely compliments the original Introduction to the 1880 ’ s English and Scottish Popular Ballads made by Child ’ s successor, George Lyman Kittredge ( retained in this volume ).

" The English Revival Canon: Child Ballads and the Invention of Tradition ".

Child's Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

Review of Mark and Laura F. Heinman's, Corrected Second Edition of Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, in Musical Traditions internet magazine, May 14, 2002.

* Project Gutenberg free e-texts of The English and Scottish Ballads are available in several formats: Volume 1 ; Volume 2 ; Volume 3 ; Volume 4. volumes in preparation.