| 单词 | riding ballad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriding ballad riding ballad n. a Scottish ballad celebrating a raid carried out across the Border into England, esp. during the Border warfare of the 16th cent.; cf. border ballad n. at border n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > ballad > types of ballad romance?1548 riding ballad1800 derry1860 chantefable1879 cantefable1883 1800 W. Scott Let. 18 Oct. (1932) I. 104 I do not mean entirely to limit my collection to the Riding Ballads, as they are called in our country, those namely which relate to Border feuds and forays. 1899 H. A. Beers Hist. Eng. Romanticism in 18th Cent. viii. 277 The ‘riding-ballad’ of the Scottish border, where the forays of moss-troopers..supplied many traditions of heroism and adventure. 1944 H. J. C. Grierson & J. C. Smith Crit. Hist. Eng. Poetry (1946) iv. 49 The genuine old ballad lived on in the North Country after it had died out in the South: the best of the ‘riding ballads’ are later than 1600. 2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 10 Mar. 22 Some of Willie's songs were venerable indeed, such as the fragments he had of one of the old Border riding ballads, Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead. < as lemmas |
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