Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode

by Andrew Lang

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Ballades & Rhymes takes its pieces from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode. The contents list ballades such as Ballade of Theocritus, Ballade of Cleopatra's Needle, Ballade of Roulette and Ballade of Sleep, among others. The front matter carries a line from A Winter's Tale: I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably.

One note says that no man since François Villon has been immortalised by a single ballade. Another line says that the Ballade of the Tweed and the Rhymes à la Mode were dedicated to the dearest of kinsmen, a cricketer and angler. A poem titled Ballade Dedicatory, to Mrs. Elton of White Staunton, begins with the painted Briton building his mound and leaving his celts and clay.

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Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book of 1889 did well enough for Longmans, Green to keep the series running for a quarter of a century, and Andrew Lang put his name to twenty-five volumes, The Yellow Fairy Book among them in 1894. Much of the labour was his wife's.

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Author: Andrew Lang
Pages: 98
Language: English
Genre: Poetry
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