Ballads
See linked pdf pages for the first two items.
1. Example ballad from Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, first published 1765. (This page is copied from a later edition of 1880). The ballad, "Sir Patrick Spence," is complete. Note that Coleridge quotes a verse from it at the head of "Dejection: An Ode" (1802). See Wu, 673.
2. Lenora, A Ballad, from Bürger. This translation from the German by William Taylor appeared in the Monthly Magazine in March 1796. This first page is copied from Mary Jacobus, Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976 (p. 277). Gottfried August Bürger (1748-1794) first published Lenore in the Göttingen Musenalmanach in 1773. "This poem, which in dramatic force and in its vivid realization of the weird and supernatural remains without a rival, made his name a household word in Göttingen." -- Wikipedia
3. For other deployments of the ballad form see:
- Hannah More, "The Story of Sinful Sally" (1796). Wu, 73.
- Robert Southey, "The Idiot" (1798). Wu, 725.
4. Review of Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Southey: Wu, 730.
5. Coleridge's account of the inception of Lyrical Ballads in Biographia Literaria (1817): Wu, 692-3.
Document created January 28th 2008