Definition of "ballads" []

• Plural form of ballad. (noun)

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• "Medieval literature, for instance, including the popular ballads, is full of an almost Georgian enthusiasm for Nature, and the art of agricultural peoples such as the Chinese and Japanese centres always round trees, birds, flowers, rivers, mountains."
• "Gilbert and Sullivan has many examples, but also, as Steve mentions, this happens in ballads — (such as, well, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”)"
• "Before writing about a Russo-centric novel or memoir, I plunge into my playlist, “Dusha” Russian Soul, which contains a dizzying mixture of sonorous ballads from the Slavic past and pop songs from the post-Soviet present."