I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked ...

Lapina, Evgeniia 2020. Women in love against the underworld: “Female savior” scenario in English, Russian and Turkish folklore narratives. p. 95.

This one is done. The ballad is one of the oldest forms of poetry in the English language. Across Europe, ballads were sung and performed to ordinary people and noble people alike. People ...

47. Pat Benatar, “Shadows of the Night” Given her incredible vocal talents, it’s no surprise that Pat Benatar knows how to power a ballad. In 1982 she was offered “Shadows of the Night ...