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The Ballade /

Cohen, Helen Louise

The Ballade / Helen Louise Cohen. - 1 online resource - Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature .

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. ORIGINS OF THE BALLADE -- CHAPTER II. THE BALLADE IN FRANCE FROM THE END OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER III. THE THEORY OF THE BALLADE FROM DESCHAMPS TO BOILEAU -- CHAPTER IV. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH BALLADE -- CHAPTER V. THE BALLADE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- APPENDIX I. POETRY COMPOSED IN THE PUY -- APPENDIX II. THE SERVENTOIS -- APPENDIX III. THE CHANT ROYAL -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Undertakes the history of this verse form from its origins in romance lands through France and England. Shows how the formal ballade became reduced to three stanzas with identical scheme and refrain.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231931229 9780231892124

10.7312/cohe93122 doi


LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.