![]() They continue to be written about real-life events and many are performed as songs in the music charts. ![]() It begins:īallads are still written to this day. His ballad looks back to the traditions of murder ballads and political ballads which demanded change. Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written in 1897, is not about noble lords or ladies. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol. It uses the ballad form to suggest the story is taking place in an older time period with courtly knights and ladies. Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with abitter look, Some with a flattering word. La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats (which translates from French into ‘The beautiful lady without pity’) was written in 1819. ![]() ![]() Many famous poets have used the ballad form over the years from Romantic poets like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats, to Victorian poets like Christina Rossetti and Oscar Wilde. ![]()
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