All 4 Uses of
ballad
in
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal.†
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- The metre of the old Ballads is very artless; yet they contain many passages which would illustrate this opinion, and, I hope, if the following Poems be attentively perused, similar instances will be found in them.†
- And I have the satisfaction of knowing that it has been communicated to many hundreds of people who would never have heard of it, had it not been narrated as a Ballad, and in a more impressive metre than is usual in Ballads.†
- And I have the satisfaction of knowing that it has been communicated to many hundreds of people who would never have heard of it, had it not been narrated as a Ballad, and in a more impressive metre than is usual in Ballads.†
Definition:
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(ballad) a song (or poem) that tells a story