The Ballads Author:M.J.C. Hodgart "An extremely useful short survey of the matters which are of most importance in ballad criticism." -- London Times — In line with modern scholarship, Professor Hodgart considers the ballad in terms of its structure and other internal characteristics. He examines the poetry and the peculiar narrative technique, to which rhetoric, dialogue, and ... more »other conventions are subordinate; the musical settings; this history of the ballad; the folklore; and the relationship between ballads and learned literature.« less