(ThyBlackMan.com) Prince Rogers Nelson’s music was always about more than rhythm and hooks—it was about emotion. He could transform love into an anthem, heartbreak into poetry, and desire into a ...

Mon., 8 Jan.: Introduction to the course. Romantic aesthetics: the mirror and the lamp. Classic or Romantic? The search for a usable past. A Time-Line of English Poetry, 658-2001. Wed., 10 Jan.: Music ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

Andrew Motion and Alice Oswald among contributors to new version of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s pioneering collection The poems are full of waterfalls, frosty moors, sunlit summer days, crumbling ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music. The word ‘ballad’ comes from the Latin ‘ballare’ which means to dance – it’s also where the word ‘ballet’ comes from. One sunny day, not ...