ballad-manner

Updated: May 28, 2025

One would not have said in the first place that the author of Religious Musings, still less of the Monody on the Death of Chatterton, was by any means the man to have compassed triumphantly at the very first attempt the terseness, vigour, and naivete of the true ballad-manner.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge