Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING BALLADS. (See p. 109.)WHAT is desired, then, is that any person who is disposed to co-operate with me should question such people of Irish birth as he may fall in with, as to their knowledge of ballads, or of persons who know ballads. It may be well to explain what a ballad is, and to give at least the story of one of the commonest. It should be understood by both parties that NO BALLADS THAT HAVE BEEN LEARNED FROM BOOKS, by the reciter or by predecessors, ARE WANTED; but only such as have been...
...name and age of the singer, or reciter, and the previous history of the ballad, so far as known (where learned, from whom, &c), and also the name of the collector, the place where the ballad was obtained, and at what time, should in every case be recorded, and will in every case be published, if the ballad should prove suitable for publication. FRAGMENTS are on no account to be despised, however brief...
MARGUERITE. O Faust, how touching is that ballad...
...BALLAD OF LOVE-LAND.Wherever the spirit of light love wanders...