42) §31. Broadsides and Street Ballads. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...national life continued to find yet another form of expression in the broadsides and street ballads which had grown out of the people s love of singing in early Tudor...

43) §13. Love Poetry; "Tayis Bank". XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and they may, indeed, prove to be theirs. The love lay Tayis Bank, in the common ballad measure, arranged in eight-lined stanzas, is curiously deliberate in its mixture...

44) §8. Aytoun s "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers". VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...was accompanied, in Aytoun, by no inconsiderable command of serious poetry. The style of his chief efforts, in this latter—ballad-romances of Scott s type—has not...

45) §6. Metrical experiments. XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in theme, temper and structure; one of them, Lucifer in Starlight, is among the most remarkable technical achievements of Meredith; it evokes the full epic strain...

46) Cullen, Countee. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His technique was conventional, modeled on that of John Keats, and his mood passed from racial pride and optimism in the 1920s to sadness and disappointment in the...

47) §4. "Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs". XIV. Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...reason to suppose that it was first published between 1542 and 1546—this was not at all likely, for it immediately succeeded what may be called the golden age of...

48) §13. William Hamilton of Bangour. XIV. Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...volume of The Miscellany. It is probably a kind of fantasia on a fragmentary traditional ballad and may even have been suggested by the anonymous Rare Willie drowned...

49) §16. Alexander Geddes. XIV. Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Dialogue betwixt William Lickladle and Thomas Cleancogue, modelled upon the anonymous ballad of Killiecrankie; and a similar ballad, Tranent Muir, on the battle of...

50) §15. Their direct influence upon Modern Poetry. X. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...or that of The Castle of Otranto (which was not poetical). The Reliques did not spread one monotonous sentiment like Ossian, or publish a receipt for romantic machinery....