- The Archive has accumulated 748 literary ballads by 143 poets of the last 300 years. (as of 7 February 2023)
- 'What is the Literary Ballad?' as the Introduction to the Archive discusses the definition of the literary ballad.
- Short biographical headnotes are provided for each poet.
- The year noted at the end of each piece tells when it was first written or published.
- The obvious misprints in the original texts are corrected in square brackets.
- In the Introduction and the biographical sketches, Child's version category in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads is indicated by the number and letters in parentheses, as in (Child 10A).
- The essays on the literary ballads are listed at the end of the poet's biography.
- The poems translated into Japanese are listed besides the original texts in English, and are added each time to 'A List of Translations'.
- Two tables of poets, in alphabetical order, and in the division of chronological periods of 20 years, are provided for the convenience of the user to look up literary balladists.
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