ballad
Definition: any light, simple song often with sentimental or romantic character
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History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...There was, in the first place, an old English play on this subject, entitled the Jew .2 It was also related in the English Gesta Romanorum, and the ballad of Gernutus, or the Jew of Venice .4 The incidents, however, in Shakespeare bear a much closer resemblance to the tale of Ser Giovanni, than either to the ballad or to the Gesta Romanorum ....
The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References ... - By Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Mrs. Ellen Maria Elizabeth Cobham (Brewer) Hayman
...A correspondent accuses DM of baring taken this ballad from \/ A-\/ ", , -, ....
Author's Digest - By Rossiter Johnson
...Gilderoy, the hero of an old Scottish ballad, a famous robber said to have plundered Cardinal Richelieu and Oliver Cromwell ....
The Roll-call - By Arnold Bennett
...Its lure was more powerful than the lure of the ballad concert ....
The Study of a Novel - By Selden Lincoln Whitcomb
...A grouping of these types arranged approximately according to increasing degree of influence upon the Stoffgeschichte and Formgeschichte of the novel, might appear somewhat as follows :--(1) The lyric, the ballad, satirical, descriptive, and pastoral poetry ....
The Nibelungenlied - By Daniel Bussier Shumway
...Another method of explaining away Siegfried 's relation to two women is to identify them, and this has been done by the Seyfrid ballad ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...So having tuned the harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad : O thou that art above in bed, Between the holland sheets, A-lying there from night till morn, With outstretched legs asleep; ' O thou, most valiant knight of all The famed Manchegan breed, Of purity and virtue more Than gold of Araby; Give ear unto a suffering maid, Well-grown but evil-starr 'd, For those two suns of thine have lit A fire within her heart ....
The Study of a Novel - By Selden Lincoln Whitcomb
...A grouping of these types arranged approximately according to increasing degree of influence upon the Stoffgeschickte and Formgcschichte of the novel, might appear somewhat as follows :--(1) The lyric, the ballad, satirical, descriptive, and pastoral poetry ....
Penelope's Progress - By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
...But the real Hynde Horn in the dear old ballad had a true love who was not captious and capricious and oold like Francesca ....