“Where the narrative is highly colored by emotion, the ballad merges…” — Katharine Lee Bates

“Where the narrative is highly colored by emotion, the ballad merges into the lyric. It is difficult here to draw the line of distinction.”

Recognising how literary forms naturally overlap when narrative becomes intensely emotional · Introduction to Ballad Book

Katharine Lee Bates

About Katharine Lee Bates

12 August 1859–28 March 1929

Katharine Lee Bates was born on 12 August 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and died on 28 March 1929 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her name is permanently associated with “America the Beautiful,” one of the most familiar and resonant poems in United States culture. Yet the anthem has sometimes obscured the…

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