Here are entered collections of ballads in various unrelated languages. Works in a single language or group of languages are entered under this heading with language qualifier, e.g. Ballads, English; Ballads, Germanic. For works consisting of ballads of an individual ethnic group, additional subject entries are made under the heading [ethnic group]--Music and under the heading Folk music--[place] or Music--[place].
Poems consisting of passages from poems by one or more other authors. For poems consisting of words or text taken from various sources and reframed as poetry see Found poetry.
--subdivision Juvenile poetry under names of countries, cities, etc., names of individual persons and corporate bodies, and under classes of persons, ethnic groups, names of deities and mythological or legendary figures, individual and groups of fictitious and legendary characters, and topical headings
For works limited to one school, the heading is qualified by nationality and an additional subject entry is made under the name of the school, e.g. 1. College verse, American--Massachusetts--Cambridge. 2. Harvard University.
Here are entered collections of epigrams. Works on the epigram as a literary form are entered under the heading Epigram. --subdivision Quotations, maxims, etc. under topical headings, e.g. Politics, Practical--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Three-line unrhymed poems consisting of 17 syllables that express a single idea, image, or feeling that is generally related to nature. For three-line unrhymed humorous poems consisting of 17 syllables that generally satirize human nature or emotions see Senryu.
--subdivision History--Poetry or subdivision History--[period subdivision]--Poetry under names of countries, cities, etc.; and subdivision Poetry under names of historical events and persons
Here are entered general collections of hymns, with qualification, when appropriate, by language, e.g. Hymns, English. For collections of hymns of an individual Christian denomination an additional subject entry is made under the heading for the denomination with subdivision Hymns, e.g. Catholic Church--Hymns. --names of individual hymns, e.g. Gloria in excelsis Deo
Poems that express a deep regret or sorrow for the loss of a person or position. For serious, formal lyric poems that reflect on a solemn subject, generally someone's death, see Elegies (Poetry).
Modern poems that are characterized by an attempt to unsettle the ordinary working language by systematically disrupting features such as syntax, referentiality and structural principles like argument and narrative.
Here are entered works on a type of modern poetry that is characterized by an attempt to unsettle the ordinary working of language by systematically disrupting features such as syntax, referentiality, and structural principles like argument and narrative.
