What is "balladry"

Usage examples of "balladry".

English and Scottish balladry to which he gave so many years of his life.

St Cloud picked up the strands of his evidence: he cited folk tale, legend, balladry, the chronicle of a foreign prince who had fallen in love with King Martin Swordsmaster and run afoul of his wizard.

He sheathed his stolen dagger and carolled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.

Preserved in balladry, too, though not illustrating the same point, is the hideous tale of Lady Mary de la Poer, who shortly after her marriage to the Earl of Shrewsfield was killed by him and his mother, both of the slayers being absolved and blessed by the priest to whom they confessed what they dared not repeat to the world.

There is a looseness and lushness, a romanticism and balladry, in the work, that is not quite characteristic.

Faust, crossing from mere balladry into the classic, cosmic tragedy of the ages, may be held as the ultimate height to which this German poetic impulse arose.

He sheathed his stolen dagger and caroled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.

English and Scottish balladry to which he gave so many years of his life.

In the dark bar of the Holiday Inn, whisky sour before him, Enderby wrote a lyric: Give the people what they wish: Something trite and tawdry, Balladry and bawdry -- Give the people what they wish.

Yet even when with new-coined phrase we trace Those shapes of splendor that equations fill— Or when some Rhysling sees what now we miss— Even then will the balladry of space Resound with Old Olympian echoes still And ghost-gods walk in each Ephemeris.