Author: Robert Dwyer JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ballads, Romances, and Songs
Author: Robert Dwyer JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ballads, Romances, and Songs
Author: Robert Dwyer JOYCE (Ballad Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Ballads, Romances, and Songs
Author: Ballads, Romances, and Songs
Author: Robert Dwyer JoycePublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230191027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...thousands are coming! Then quick spreads the fear of the mighty invader, Yet all for Tir Conaill are banding to aid her; And their chieftain--alas! that the death-wounds have bound him--Calls the men of his might from the valleys around him. Then he raises his voice by that wild river billow, With the gash in his breast and the gore on his pillow--"O'Niall," he says, "from his mountains of bleakness Ever came in the hours of our sorrow and weakness: He pours on our valleys, and now we will greet him With the welcome of old on the plains where we meet him! In the day of my strength ye have found me before ye Where'er your bright claymores to victory bore ye; In the day of my weakness my soul must be long ing To see how my people to battle are thronging! v. Then sound ye, my children, the war note defiant From the gray Arran cliffs to the Pass of the Giant, And make me a bier like the biers of my fathers; Bear me high in your van where the red Niall gathers, And we'll scatter his bands, as the storm-clouds of Heaven From Aileach's black rocks by her thunders are driven!" Then the hearts of his warriors grow stronger and prouder, And the shouts of their ardour swell wilder and louder, And fiercely their war-pipes are ringing and pealing, From the low-lying glens to the far mountain shieling. " He then directed his men to place him on the bier which should take him to the grave, and to carry him on it at the head of his forces."--Ilaverty's History of Ireland.--See also Annals of the Four Masters. VI. They've made him a bier like the biers of his fathers, They bear him afar where the red Niall gathers--Six champions of might from that green forest alley Bear him on thro' each wild glade and torrent-bound valley, ...
Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
Author: Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029278306X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's paradise and in the virtue of sacrifice. This volume contains an exact transcription of the thirty-six Nahuatl song texts, accompanied by authoritative English translations. Bierhorst includes all the numerals (which give interpretive clues) in the Nahuatl texts and also differentiates the text from scribal glosses. His translations are thoroughly annotated to help readers understand the imagery and allusions in the texts. The volume also includes a helpful introduction and a larger essay, "On the Translation of Aztec Poetry," that discusses many relevant historical and literary issues. In Bierhorst's expert translation and interpretation, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain emerges as a song of resistance by a conquered people and the recollection of a glorious past. Announcing a New Digital Initiative http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/utdigital/ UT Press, in a new collaboration with the University of Texas Libraries, will publish an interactive digital adaptation of the Ballads that will expand the scholarly content beyond what is possible to publish in book form. The web site, to launch in conjunction with the book in July 2009, includes all of the printed book plus scans of the original codex, a normative transcription, and space to interact with the author and other scholars, as well as art, audio, a map, and other related material. The digital Ballads will be open access, bringing one of the university’s rare holdings to scholars around the world.
Ballads and Romances... - Loose and Humorous Songs...
Author: Thomas PercyBallads and Romances
Author: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Spanish Ballads
Author: Roger WrightPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 085668340X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Spanish ballad tradition is one of the largest and most colourful in Europe, as reflected in the present collection of 71 of the best examples.
A Collection of Ballads
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing. Some writers have decided, among them Mr. Courthope, that our traditional ballads are degraded popular survivals of literary poetry. The plots and situations of some ballads are, indeed, the same as those of some literary mediaeval romances. But these plots and situations, in Epic and Romance, are themselves the final literary form of märchen, myths and inventions originally popular, and still, in certain cases, extant in popular form among races which have not yet evolved, or borrowed, the ampler and more polished and complex genres of literature. Thus, when a literary romance and a ballad have the same theme, the ballad may be a popular degradation of the romance; or, it may be the original popular shape of it, still surviving in tradition. A well-known case in prose, is that of the French fairy tales.