I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Ah, the power ballad: 80s radio – and most of our love lives – would have been a lot less colorful without it. This list of the 45 best power ballads is drawn mainly from that era, but we’ve ...

Ballad of magic, about fairies, ghosts, witchcraft and transformation Border ballad Ballad of love and domestic tragedy Ballad of outlaws, for example Robin Hood A narrative poem tells a story in ...