Ballad some of which were later set to music by Schubert. Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling's "Barrack-Room Ballads" (1892-6) and Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1897). Victorian poet Christina Rossetti used ballad forms to explore spiritual and moral issues and to discuss the stereotypical treatment and representation of men and women's roles in society. In the 18th century ballad operas developed as a form of English stage entertainment, partly in opposition to the Italian domination of the London operatic scene. It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken (English) dialogue, interspersed with songs that
Ballad of the Goodly Fere offensive. Edward Marsh sought permission to reprint "Fere", which Pound denied because he wished to reprint it himself. T. S. Eliot said that "Fere" showed Pound's "great knowledge of the ballad form". William Butler Yeats said that "Fere" "will last". Ambrose Bierce is said to have "consistently disapproved" the poems of a "young poet", until one came to him which impressed him so much he wore "out the paper and the patience of friends by reading it at them", namely "Fere". Ballad of the Goodly Fere The Ballad of the Goodly Fere is a poem by Ezra Pound, first published