Download or read book Modern Street Ballads written by John Ashton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Street Ballads is a generous collection of early 19th-century street ballads. Ballads developed out of minstrelsy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These were narrative poems that had combined with French courtly romances and Germanic legends that were popular at the King's court, as well as in the halls of lords of the realm.