Word: ballads
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...wish for the romantic glory of the Middle Ages; the lights go out, stage hands scurry and scenery bumps in the darkness; the lights revive on a 15th Century garden. Victor Herbert snatched the opportunity to inject a rousing old-fashioned marching-drinking song which, with The Dream Girl ballad and Miss Bainter's I Want to Go Home, are the leaders of a highly melodious evening...
...fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there were still traditional singers and traditional story-tellers gave him a grounding in the speech and thoughts of folk writing. At 18 he was a clerk in a railway office...
This Elizabethan miscellany, familiar to Shakespeare and containing a ballad which may have provided Ophelia with snatches of her mad scene, is now reprinted for modern readers and students, in a pleasing edition which follows the original pagination, punctuation, and division of lines. "The Handful of Pleasant Delights", says the editor, "contains nothing but ballads, all of which and, before their collection in miscellany, been printed on breadsides, so that it is a bit surprising to see how unanimous is the price given to it." Whether the present reprint should prove more tempting to student of special topics...
...highest honors in the poetry. The picture of Pan pressing his "twisted thumb against his nose" is delicious-and it is painted with well-swung movements of the brush. What is more, it is a generous relief from the devil-in-the-inkpot type of verse. Mr. Hope's "Ballad" is symbolic and severe, as much a ballad should be; but then Mr. Hope can usually be counted on to produce good work...
...action is combined spectacle, pantomime, opera. The story is based on a legend of the ages, told twice before?by John Davidson. in The Ballad of a Nun and by Maeterlinck in Soeur Beatrice. The Nun, feeling the call of the flesh, deserts her cloistered life, goes through a strange variety of worldly revels, and returns, tarnished and beaten by the world, to find that the statue of the Virgin has come to life and performed her duties in her absence...