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Book Popular Ballads of the Olden Time  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Popular Ballads of the Olden Time Classic Reprint written by Frank Sidgwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Ballads of the Olden Time Ballad editors of yore were confronted with perhaps two, perhaps twenty, versions of each ballad; some unintelligibly fragmentary, some intelligibly complete; some in print, some in manuscript, some, perchance, in their own memories. Collating these, they subjected the text to minute revision, omitting and adding, altering and inserting, to suit their personal tastes and standards, literary! Or polite; and having thus made it over, forgot to record the act, and saw no reason to apologise therefor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Old Time Ballads  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Old Time Ballads Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Time Ballads OF all the girls that are so smart, There's none like pretty Sally; She is the darling Of my heart, And she lives in our alley. There is no lady in the land That's half so sweet as Sally: She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Old English Ballads and Folk Songs

Download or read book Old English Ballads and Folk Songs written by William Dallam Armes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old English Ballads and Folk Songs: Selected and Edited Das Volk dichtet on a rational basis. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads of the first (now made generally accessible by the publication by Houghton, Mifilin, and Company of the Cambridge edition under the editorial supervision of Mrs. Helen Child Sargent and Professor Kittredge) and The Beginnings of Poetry (the Macmillan Company) of the second are books that should be owned, read, and reread by every teacher of literature. And to my friend and colleague, Dr. Walter Morris Hart, whose extensive knowledge of ballads and ballad literature en abled him to give me many helpful suggestions, I grate fully express my obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Some Old French and English Ballads  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Some Old French and English Ballads Classic Reprint written by Robert Steele and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Old French and English Ballads The Ballad Poetry of a country is its most characteristic and its most enduring contribution to the romantic movement. Literary Romanticism has now swayed all currents of thought, again been banished in favour of classicism and formality, and once again triumphed, but through it all the love, the wonder, the terror, the imaginative spirit of these songs have been the unfailing refuge of the many from the narrowness of life, the inexhaustible source from which literature has at each renaissance drawn renewed strength and vigour. The little selection of some score of French and English Ballads now printed is perhaps the more representative of the popular poetry of the two countries, because it is not wholly anonymous or wholly popular. A poem, a folk-tale is not truly representative of its country until it can pass freely from cottage to palace, welcome alike and claiming kinship in either. The song which takes its rise among the people must be resung by the poet before it has lost its dross, the poet's composition must be censored by the million before it appeals to that universal element to which all great work is addressed. Simplicity, nobility, and the fortunate chance which says the unexpected right thing - all these must come together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book American Ballads and Folk Songs

Download or read book American Ballads and Folk Songs written by John A. Lomax and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Book Old English Ballads

Download or read book Old English Ballads written by James Pinckney Kinard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Book of Ballads

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  • Author : Guido H. Stempel
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-03-05
  • ISBN : 9780666938770
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book A Book of Ballads written by Guido H. Stempel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Ballads: Old and New A ballad is a song that tells a story. Of the ballads in this book, some have been handed down by oral tradition, some are the productions of known poets. The traditional ballads belong to popular or folk poetry, the others to the poetry of art. Traditional poetry differs greatly from artistic poetry. People of to-day who read such poetry for the first time, are apt to feel that it is inferior and even without merit. But when they know it better, they realize that it is in some ways more beautiful and interesting than the polished work of literary artists. This is a discovery that students need to make for themselves. It is to help them make it that this little book is presented to them. The best way is to read ballads, to read them aloud, over and over again, to learn them by heart, if possible to sing them.* But it may help the student somewhat if he knows beforehand some of the peculiar features of popular ballads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Iza s Ballad

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  • Author : Magda Szabo
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2016-10-18
  • ISBN : 1681370344
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Iza s Ballad written by Magda Szabo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing Communist Hungary of the years after World War II. From a poor family and without formal education, Ettie has devoted her life to the cause of her husband, Vince, a courageous magistrate who had been blacklisted for political reasons before the war. Iza, their daughter, is as brave and conscientious as her father: Active in the resistance against the Nazis, she is now a doctor and a force for progress. Iza lives and works in Budapest, and when Vince dies, she is quick to bring Ettie to the city to make sure her mother is close and can be cared for. She means to do everything right, and Ettie is eager to do everything to the satisfaction of the daughter she is so proud of. But good intentions aside, mother and daughter come from two different worlds and have different ideas of what it means to lead a good life. Though they struggle to accommodate each other, increasingly they misunderstand and hurt each other, and the distance between them widens into an abyss. . . .

Book Songs and Ballads  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Songs and Ballads Classic Reprint written by Fanny Raymond-Ritter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Songs and Ballads Rather less than half the songs and ballads in the accompanying collection have already appeared in English and American periodicals and as some among these have been several times illustrated by composers, while to a few the compliment of translation has been accorded, their re-appearance here may not prove unwelcome to their former readers. Others now appear in print for the first time. Part of the transcriptions might be more truly termed free fan tasias (in musical parlance) on fragments, broken verses, of partially lost folk-songs; others, to which the authors' names are appended, are as true to their originals as befits translations that rather aim at preserving the spirit than the letter. With the exception of one or two of which I have seen English prose versions, and the Servian song, which Lord Lytton had already translated, these appear, I believe, for the first time in our language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Ballad Book

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  • Author : William Allingham
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-03-22
  • ISBN : 9780365298342
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Ballad Book written by William Allingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest Old Ballads And louted low doun on his knee Hail to thee, Mary, Queen of Heaven! For thy peer on earth could never be.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Old English Ballads  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Old English Ballads Classic Reprint written by Francis B. Gummere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old English Ballads The editor's obligations for help in the making of this book are limited to three sources; but in each case it is hard to render adequate acknowledgment. The authori ties of the Harvard College Library have shown the utmost courtesy; Professor Kittredge has helped the editor in revising the proof-sheets of the Introduction, and for the Glossary and Notes has not only given the same generous service, - a service valued best by those who know his command of Middle English, -but has made a number of important suggestions; while Pro fessor Child, in addition to the sympathy and encourage ment of which he is so prodigal, has kindly looked through the proof-sheets of the Glossary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Popular Ballads of the Olden Time

Download or read book Popular Ballads of the Olden Time written by Frank Sidgwick and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Ballads of the Olden Time: Selected and Edited by Frank Sidgwick, Second Series, Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Time: Selected and Edited By Frank Sidgwick, Second Series, Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth was written by Frank Sidgwick in 1904. This is a 263 page book, containing 48638 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Old English Ballads

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  • Author : Richard Clay
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-02
  • ISBN : 9780267494088
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Old English Ballads written by Richard Clay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old English Ballads: A Collection of Favourite Ballads of the Olden Time About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Old Fashioned Hymns and Mountain Ballads  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Old Fashioned Hymns and Mountain Ballads Classic Reprint written by Asher Sizemore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Fashioned Hymns and Mountain Ballads It is here I met Asher Sizemore in the heart of Pike County with its 789 square miles of mountain picturesqueness, with Society in the process of transition so rapid in places as to leave one breathless at times. It was on a Good Friday night, at the altar of a beautiful Community Church, the sacred shrine of the worshippers of twelve different Denominations, that I laid my arm about the shoulders of this fine young man, who was bowing in humble submission to the Will' of God, and pronounced the blessings of the Church upon him. At the time he was engaged in the Accounting Department of a large Coal Company and I was its Religious Educational Director. I am sure you need no words now, to explain just why I am writing these few lines. Sometime, somewhere, in the poetic nature of this mountain youth was born the seed of song. It must have often come to the verge of its unfolding. He must have often felt the fire of the coming flower. One day, we know not when, but it was a blessed day, a mighty inspiration smote the soul of this youth of the Kentucky Mountains, and out of the silence the seed burst into blossom, on which day he gave the world his lyrical trust. A lyric which has sung and played itself, by the aid of the voice of sweet little jimmie into the hearts of countless thousands and will continue until its musrc melts away and blends with the harmonies of another world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Classic Rock Stories

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  • Author : Tim Morse
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 1998-07-15
  • ISBN : 1429937505
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Classic Rock Stories written by Tim Morse and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time on the open road with Dad's beat-up clunker and a brand-new driver's lecense. That first kiss. Practicing Steve Tyler moves in the garage. Lazy summer days with nothing to do but hang out with a group of friends and the radio. Classic Rock. In Classic Rock Stories, classic rockers reveal the sometimes painful, sometimes accidental, and often hilarious process of creating the songs that you can still sing aloud. In their own words, rockers like Pete Townshend, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks, Elton John, and Keith Richards tell about the drugs, the pain, the love gone bad, and the accidents that resulted in the hits.

Book Ye Olden Time Songs of a Simple Life  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Ye Olden Time Songs of a Simple Life Classic Reprint written by Charles E. Ware and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ye Olden Time Songs of a Simple Life On my return to the city, I requested a music house to obtain copies of as many of the original prints of these songs as was possible to find. It has seemed apparent to me that the people were tiring of the songs and music of the present day, and would gladly welcome a return to the old-time songs of happier and simpler days, if given an Opportunity to do so. In this belief and feeling that our aged relatives and friends would enjoy hearing again the purer and more pathetic songs of the long ago, I have published the selections in this volume and, as nearly as possible, reproduced the old familiar titles, music and words as when first published. If the Old Time Songs give pleasure to others, and serve to drive away loneliness, as they did for me in the old farm house in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, mv object will have been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Ballads Songs  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Ballads Songs Classic Reprint written by John Davidson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ballads Songs His father's house looked out across a firth Broad-bosomed like a mere, beside a town Far in the North, where Time could take his ease, And Change hold holiday; where Old and New Weltered upon the border of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.