32) §5. Lyric Poetry of the Eighteenth Century. XI. The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...was confined, or confined himself, to very few metres. Stiff and sing-song common or ballad measure; rather better, but too uniform, long measure or octosyllabic...

33) §14. Sir John Clerk and George Halkett. 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
...the authorship of Logie O Buchan, which appeared c. 1730, in a broadside, and a Jacobite ballad Wherry Whigs Awa, included in Hogg s Jacobite Relics, but termed by...

34) §21. Concluding summary. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...by some unknown ballad-writer who had never read Aristotle. He derives from Macpherson s fragments and his Fingall evidence that without any respect of climates poetry...

35) §1. Drayton s Boyhood. X. Michael Drayton. 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
...Tutor merrily I came, (For I was then a proper goodly page, Much like a Pigmy, scarse ten yeares of age) Clasping my slender armes about his thigh. O my deare master!...

36) V. Lesser Poets, 1790–1837: Bibliography. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...1855. Robert Bloomfield Remains in poetry and prose. Ed. Weston, J. 2 vols. 1824. The Farmer s Boy. 1800. Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs. 1802. Wild Flowers. 1806....

37) §21. Jacobite Songs in Hogg s "Jacobite Relics of Scotland;" Hogg s editorial methods. 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
...and manuscript. Indeed, he tells us that he obtained so many copies—of the same ballad and, also, of different ballads—that he actually grew terrified when he heard...

38) §15. Attractiveness and shortcomings of his Verse. VII. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...than any other. He appears, at first, to have caught that inestimable soar and sweep of the common measure which had seemed to be lost with the latest Carolines;...

39) §22. National Songs. IX. Anglo-Irish Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...less well-known lyric The Irish Mother s Lament, is one of the most poignant appeals of the kind ever uttered. 53 The recent death of T. D. Sullivan, long editor...

40) §3. Nashe s "Anatomie of Absurditie". 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
...of Ovid s Metamorphoses, a discussion on diet, an invective against ballad-mongers and the customary defence of poetry, the writer vigorously criticises classical...