22) Wigglesworth, Michael. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...minister at Malden, Mass., he also practiced medicine and wrote didactic poetry. His Day of Doom (1662), a ballad of Puritan theology, was extremely popular and was...

23) §14. Relation of Romances to Ballads. XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...it will not do to take the ballads in a lump as degenerate forms of earlier narrative poetry, for the ballad is essentially a lyrical form, and has its own laws,...

24) X. The Scottish Chaucerians: Bibliography. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...J., in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 1802, printed 160 of the 197 stanzas (I, pp.14–54). Skeat, W. W. The Kingis Quair, together with A Ballad of Good Counsel....

25) §8. "The Maid Freed from the Gallows;" The Making of Ballads; General Outlines of Ballad Progress. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...or parallelismus membrorum, established by Lowth for Hebrew poetry. The rhythmic form into which the ballad verse naturally ran is that four-accent couplet known...

26) §1. The Three Periods. IX. The Beginnings of Verse, 1610–1808. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...beginnings of American poetry may be divided into three periods. The first period is that of the early colonial verse which begins in 1610 with the publication of...

27) §19. Anonymous 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
...nae luck aboot the Hoose has been attributed both to William Julius Mickle, author of the ballad of Cumnor Hall, and to Jean Adams of Greenock, authoress of a book...

28) §7. Poulter s measure . VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in the hands of Southwell. It was of English origin, being, probably, a development of the ballad quatrain, and was commonly called poulter s measure, from the dozen...

29) §1. Causes of the New Development of Satirical Literature on Political Subjects in the Period following the Restoration. III. Political and Ecclesiastical Satire. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...II, satirical poetry on political subjects took permanent root in England. It is true that there had already been satires, like those of Cleiveland and the cavalier...

30) XVII. Ballads: Bibliography. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...account of ballad criticism in England and Germany. See also, by the same writer, The Ballad and Communal Poetry, Child Memorial volume (v) of the Harvard Studies...