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Definition of Balladic
1. ballad [adj] - See also: ballad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balladic
Literary usage of Balladic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"London : Bell and Daldy. or rather, his art is more balladic, lees learned and
compressed. But if he is sometimes happy, his sine against the spirit of ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"His translations from the "Poema del Cid," which were printed in Southey's "Chronicle,"
have also a fine balladic lilt; ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"His translations from the Poema del Cid, which were printed in Southey's Chronicle,
have also a fine balladic lilt; but their literal fidelity to the ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"... thirdly, from its containing a large and valuable mass of balladic and dramatic
literature. The foremost living cultivator of this interesting language ..."
5. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"... and the sister, the red-cheek'd New England carnation, sweet Abby ; sometimes
plaintive and balladic—sometimes anti-slavery, anti-calomel, and comic. ..."
6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... merely inserting in its programmes operatic and balladic trifles, nt times,
in order to appease the grumbling legion which demands Stephen Glover or ..."
7. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1863)
"Surely the trundle and mockery of the balladic rhythm is unmistakable. It almost
seems to carry with it a jeering, flouting tone, admirably suited to the ..."
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