The Ballade / Helen Louise Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Helen Louise, author.

Series:

Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1915]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89212-8

OCLC:

1041051022