Ballads and Poems Illustrating English History

Originally published in 1907, this book presents a selection of poems and ballads related to various events in English history.

Frank Sidgwick (Edited by)

9781107632325, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

220 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.24 kg

Originally published in 1907, this book presents a selection of poems and ballads related to various events in English history. The selection was created for schoolchildren and is ordered chronologically in accordance with the subject matter of each work. A short editorial introduction and textual notes are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry, historical literature and the history of education.

AD 61 'Boadicea' W. Cowper
1020 'King Canute' W. M. Thackeray
1120 'He never smiled again' Mrs Hemans
1120 'King John and the Abbot of Canterbury' Trad. ballad
1265 'Lament for Simon de Montfort' Tr. by G. Ellis
1265 'Robin Hood and the three squires' Trad. ballad
'Bold Robin' T. L. Peacock
1346 'Durham field' Trad. ballad
1388 'Chevy Chase' Trad. ballad
1411 'The battle of Harlaw' Trad. ballad
1415 'The Agincourt song' Contemporary poem
1415 'King Henry V's conquest of France' Trad. ballad
1415 'Agincourt' M. Drayton
1480 'The rose of England' Trad. ballad
1511 'Sir Andrew Barton' Trad. ballad
1513 'Flodden Field' Trad. ballad
1513 'Edinburgh after Flodden' W. E. Aytoun
1530 'Dick o' the cow' Trad. ballad
1568 'Earl Bothwell' Trad. ballad
1569 'The rising in the North' Trad. ballad
1584 'Mary Ambree' Trad. ballad
1586 'Brave Lord Willoughby' Anon.
1588 'The Armada' Lord Macaulay
1588 'The defeat of the Spanish Armada' Anon.
1595 'The fame of Sir Francis Drake' Anon.
1605 'Captain Ward and the Rainbow' Trad. ballad
1643 'When the king enjoys his own again' M. Parker
1644 'Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor' W. M. Praed
1645 'The Battle of Naseby' Lord Macaulay
1648 'On the Lord General Fairfax' John Milton
1650 'Cromwell's return from Ireland' A. Marvell
1652 'To Cromwell' John Milton
1666 'The fire of London' John Dryden
1688 'The song of the western man' R. S. Hawker
1689 'The burial march of Dundee' W. E. Aytoun
1702 'Admiral Benbow' Anon.
1704 'After Blenheim' R. Southey
1720 'The vicar of Bray' Anon.
1773 'The Boston tea-party' O. W. Holmes
1782 'The loss of the Royal George' W. Cowper
1801 The battle of the Baltic' T. Campbell
1805 The happy warrior' W. Wordsworth
1807 'Ye mariners of England' T. Campbell
1809 'The burial of Sir John Moore' Charles Wolfe
1815 'Waterloo' Lord Byron
1815 'England's dead' Mrs Hemans
1837 'Victoria's tears' Mrs Browning
1852 'Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington' Lord Tennyson
1854 'The charge of the Light Brigade' Lord Tennyson
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Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]