Editing Ballad (section)

===Literary ballads===
Literary or lyrical ballads grew out of an increasing interest in the ballad form among social elites and intellectuals, particularly in the [[Romantic movement]] from the later 18th century. Respected literary figures [[Robert Burns]] and [[Walter Scott]] in Scotland collected and wrote their own ballads. Similarly in England [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] produced a collection of ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]'' in 1798 that included Coleridge's ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats were attracted to the simple and natural style of these folk ballads and tried to imitate it.<ref name="British Literature pg 610" /> At the same time in Germany [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] cooperated with [[Friedrich Schiller|Schiller]] on a series of ballads, some of which were later set to music by [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]].<ref>J. R. Williams, ''The Life of Goethe'' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001), pp. 106-8.</ref> 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).<ref>S. Ledger, S. McCracken, ''Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 152.</ref>