Ballad Criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain During the Eighteenth CenturyAmerican-Scandinavian foundation, 1916 - 335 стор. |
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Adam Bell Addison ancient antiquity appears Axel Olrik ballad criticism bards Battle of Otterburn Chevy Chase collection connection Copenhagen Dalin's Danish ballads Danmarks gamle Folkeviser danske Denmark discussion Dissertation earlier editor eighteenth century England English and Scottish essay Folkeviser gamle give Goldsmith Grundtvig Hagbard Hardyknute heroic ballads historical ballads Holberg Ibid imitation influence interest Johnson King later letter literary literature London lyric material minstrels modern Monthly Review Norse notes Nut-brown Maid Nyerup Old Ballads older opinion original Ossian particularly pastoral Percy's period pieces Pinkerton poem poet poetic popular ballads popular poetry preface printed publication published Ramsay reference Reliques remarks Ritson Robin Hood romances Runic says Scandinavian Scotland Scots Scottish Ballads Shakespeare Shenstone Shenstone's simplicity songs stanza sung Svend Grundtvig Sweden Swedish Syv's taste texts Thomas Percy tion tradition translated Vedel verse Viser volume Warton William Shenstone writer written
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Сторінка 21 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Сторінка 66 - Gothic manner in writing, than this, that the first pleases all kinds of palates, and the latter only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors and writers of epigram. Homer, Virgil, or Milton, so far as the language of their poems is understood...
Сторінка 138 - By comparison alone we fix the epithets of praise or blame, and learn how to assign the due degree of each. The coarsest daubing contains a certain lustre of colours and exactness of imitation, which are so far beauties, and would affect the mind of a peasant or Indian with the highest admiration. The most vulgar ballads are not entirely destitute of harmony or nature; and...
Сторінка 69 - ... sounding, and that the whole is written with a true poetical spirit. If this song had been written in the Gothic manner, which is the delight of all our little wits, whether writers or readers, it would not have hit the taste of so many ages, and have pleased the readers of all ranks and conditions. I shall only beg pardon for such a profusion of Latin quotations; which I should not have made use of, but that I feared my own judgment would have looked too singular on such a subject, had not I...
Сторінка 292 - The ballad is a species of poetry I believe peculiar to this country, equally adapted to the drollest and the most tragical subjects. Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristics.
Сторінка 202 - The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt, when our old dairy-maid sung me into tears with Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night, or the Cruelty of Barbara Allen.
Сторінка 71 - This song is a plain, simple copy of nature, destitute of all the helps and ornaments of art. The tale of it is a pretty tragical story, and pleases for no other reason but because it is a copy of nature. There is even a despicable simplicity in the verse ; and yet, because the sentiments appear genuine and unaffected, they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings of humanity and compassion.
Сторінка 82 - The ballads, pasted on the wall, Of Joan of France, and English Moll, Fair Rosamond, and Robin Hood, The Little Children in the Wood, Now seem'd to look abundance better, Improved in picture, size, and letter ; And, high in order placed, describe The heraldry of every tribe.
Сторінка 84 - And Cambrick Handkerchiefs reward the Song. But soon as Coach or Cart drives rattling on, The Rabble part, in Shoals they backward run. So Jove's loud Bolts the mingled War divide, 85 And Greece and Troy retreat on either side.
Сторінка 214 - Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.