...Ballads and Ballad Poetry
Title | ...Ballads and Ballad Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
Ballads and Ballad Poetry
Title | Ballads and Ballad Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
Ballads and Ballad Poems
Title | Ballads and Ballad Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Noel Pocock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | Folk songs, English |
ISBN |
The Ballad Poetry of Ireland
Title | The Ballad Poetry of Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Ballads and Ballad Poems
Title | Ballads and Ballad Poems PDF eBook |
Author | William Cowper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1900* |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Title | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Percy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
Ballads
Title | Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Owens |
Publisher | punctum books |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2015-06-03 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0615983936 |
Originally published by eth co-editor David Hadbawnik's habenicht press in 2012, Ballads uses the lyric form to explore the effects of global Capitalism from a sharp Marxist perspective. Recognizing the congruence between folk song circulation and the circulation of money, the "currency" of the ballad alongside supply-side economics, Owens hails Wordworth's Lyric Ballads experiment (undertaken at the dawn of England's Industrial Age) as one touchstone. But he also understands the built-in obsolescence of the form, its tendency to hearken back to imaginary origins. "[E]veryone has an idea they know what a ballad is," Owens writes in his "Working Notes." "It's this degraded thing shot through with a sense of pastness, cultural infancy and a charming but sometimes dangerous rusticity that needs to be carefully framed and reined." Thus Owens' Ballads playfully engage with language, figures, and forms from medieval and early modern England, with nods to the caesura-based, alliterative line, and Barbara Allan, Thomas the Rhymer, and Piers Plowman making appearances in the book's brief lyrics.