Download or read book Scottish Ballad Poetry Classic Reprint written by George Eyre-Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Ballad Poetry The Douglas Tragedy and May Colvin, it may probably be taken as a rule that, while the original facts and story have remained unaltered, localities, persons, and diction may, in the long course Of oral tradition, have been liable to change. 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.

Download or read book The Romantic Scottish Ballads Their Epoch and Authorship written by Robert William Chambers and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy, at the close of his copy of Sir Patrick Spence, tells us that 'an ingenious friend' of his was of opinion that 'the author of Hardyknute has borrowed several expressions and sentiments from the foregoing [ballad], and other old Scottish songs in this collection.' It does not seem to have ever occurred to the learned editor, or any friend of his, however 'ingenious,' that perhapsSir Patrick Spence had no superior antiquity over Hardyknute, and that the parity he remarked in the expressions was simply owing to the two ballads being the production of one mind. Neither did any such suspicion occur to Scott. He fully accepted Sir Patrick Spence as a historical narration, judging it to refer most probably to an otherwise unrecorded embassy to bring home the Maid of Norway, daughter of King Eric, on the succession to the Scottish crown opening to her in 1286, by the death of her grandfather, King Alexander III., although the names of the ambassadors who did go for that purpose are known to have been different. The want of any ancient manuscript, the absence of the least trait of an ancient style of composition, the palpable modernness of the diction—for example, 'Our ship must sail the faem,' a glaring specimen of the poetical language of the reign of Queen Anne—and, still more palpably, of several of the things alluded to, as cork-heeled shoon, hats, fans, and feather-beds, together with the inapplicableness of the story to any known event of actual history, never struck any editor of Scottish poetry, till, at a recent date, Mr David Laing intimated his suspicions that Sir Patrick Spence and Hardyknute were the production of the same author. To me it appears that there could not well be more remarkable traits of an identity of authorship than what are presented in the extracts given from Hardyknute and the entire poem of Sir Patrick—granting only that the one poem is a considerable improvement upon the other. Each poem opens with absolutely the same set of particulars—a Scottish king sitting—drinking the blude-red wine—and sending off a message to a subject on a business of importance. Norway is brought into connection with Scotland in both cases. Sir Patrick's exclamation, 'To Noroway, to Noroway,' meets with an exact counterpart in the 'To horse, to horse,' of the courtier in Hardyknute.

Download or read book Selections from Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland Classic Reprint written by Richard John King and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland William of Malmesbury, was in the daily habit of taking his station on a public bridge, as though a minstrel by profession, in order that he might benefit his then semi-barbarous coun trymen by the mixture of more serious subjects with the harper's ballad.3 The same historian alludes to certain ancient songs, the subjects of which were the birth of Athelstan, 'and the evil life of Edgar; a fact which may perhaps account for the law of that king pro hibiting the singing of ballads at festivals and banquets.' Lays on the life and actions of Hereward are noticed by Ingulf, and the un known author of the treatise, De Gestis Here wardi, edited by Michel. 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.

Download or read book Scottish Songs Ballads and Poems Classic Reprint written by Hew Ainslie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems The author of the following fugitive rhymes has long been a truant from the laurelled walks of literature, and now, in the autumnal gloaming of life, like Rip Van Winkle from his mountain slumber, he comes once more among the haunts of men, with antique accoutrements and forgotten phraseology, to enquire of wondering old friends and neighbors - whether this busy world stands Where it did In his hot youth, when George the Third was King '9. 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.

Download or read book The Scottish Ballads written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scottish Ballads: Collected and Illustrated Since the publication of a few Scottish Ballads by Percy, in 1755, but especially during the present century, the public have been put in possession of many various collections of popular narrative poetry; among which the chief are - Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1801 - Jamieson's Popular Ballads and Songs, 1806 - Finlay's Historical and Romantic Ballads, 1808 - Kinloch's Ancient Ballads, 1826 - Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, 1827 - and Buchan's Ancient Ballads of the North of Scotland, 1828. Each of these works contains a certain number of ballads, which the editors recovered from the mouths of the common people, and printed for the first time; as also a considerable number, which can only be called various versions of similar compositions elsewhere published. One way and another, nearly two hundred distinctly different ballads have been thus laid before the public; some of them in no fewer than six different forms. 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.

Download or read book Auld Scots Ballants Classic Reprint written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Auld Scots Ballants Notwithstanding the many benefits resulting from the immense popularity of the Scottish daily and weekly newspapers, the universality of the latter has given an effectual check to the circulation of the rude Old Ballad Literature which, from fifty to a hundred years ago, formed so important an item in the pack of every itinerant chapman in the land; and to-day the tragic ballads of "Sir James the Rose," and "Mill o' Tifty's Annie," "The Hunting of Chevy-Chase," the pathetic tale of "Gil Morrice," and the humorous and once popular story of "Thrummy Cap," and others such like, are known chiefly to the literary antiquary. Some of our rare old chap-ballads, indeed, such as "Thrummy Cap," "The Wife o' Beith," "The Herd's Ghaist," "Young Gregor's Ghost," and "The Blaeberry Courtship" - none of which, strange to say, has been incorporated in the Standard Collections - are fast threatening to become extinct, copies of some of them being already almost unobtainable. This being the case, and considering that the custom hitherto has been to publish the collections of what has been aptly termed "the literature of the common people" at a price almost beyond the limits of the common purse, it occurred to me some time ago that a volume comprising the more popular and entertaining of the old Chap-Ballads, together with the best of those preserved in the Collections, would, if published at a moderate price, meet with approval. In the course of last year I accordingly issued a little collection in paper covers, under the title of "Rare Old Scotch 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.

Download or read book English and Scottish Ballads Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. 7 Genealogical notices of the personages mentioned in this and the following ballad will be found in Percy's Religues and in Scott's Minstrelsy. 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.

Download or read book Auld Scots Ballants 1889 written by Robert Ford and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Ballads of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballads of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 I believe that every editor of a work of this kind must have felt that in his first edition many errors and omissions were certain to occur. Having had the advantage of much sound and intelligent criticism from gentlemen who were evidently well acquainted with the subject, and enthusiasts in our older literature, I have been enabled in some places materially to improve the text; while, from private sources, I have received much information of a very valuable kind. The work has been subjected to a strict revision, and six additional ballads - two of them taken down from recitation - have been inserted. 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.

Download or read book The Romantic Scottish Ballads written by Robert Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetiy, 1765 3 David Herd's Scottish Songs, 1769 3 Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1802 and J amieson's Popular Ballads and Songs, 1806, have been chie y the means of making us acquainted with what is believed to be the ancient traditionary ballad literature of Scotland; and this literature, from its intrinsic merits, has attained a very great fame. I advert particularly to what are. Usually called the Romantic Ballads, a class of compositions felt to contain striking beauties, almost peculiar to themselves, and consequently held as implying extraordinary poetical attributes in former generations of the people of this country. There have been many speculations about the history of these poems, all assigning them a considerable antiquity, and generally assuming that their recital was once the special business of a set of wandering conteurs or minstrels. So lately as 1858, my admired friend, Professor Aytoun, in intro ducing a collection of them, at once ample and elegant, to the world, expressed his belief that they date at least from before the Reformation, having only been modified by successive reciters, so as to modernise the language, and, in some instances, bring in the ideas of later ages. 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."

Download or read book Ancient Scottish Ballads written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Scottish Ballads: Recovered From Tradition, and Never Before Published; With Notes, Historical and Explanatory: And an Appendix, Containing the Airs of Several of the Ballads The Provost's Dochter; Hynde Horn; Elfin Knicht; Young Peggy; William Guiseman; Laird of Ochiltree; Laird of Lochnie; The Duke of Athol; Glasgow Peggy; Lady Margaret; Geordie; Lord John; Laird of Drum; Jock o' Hazelgreen; Duke of Perth's Three Daughters; Lord Henry and Lady Ellenore; Hynde Etin; Clerk Saunders; Sweet William and May Margaret; Queen Eleanor's Confession; Mary Hamilton; Lord Beichan and Susie PyeI 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.

Download or read book Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Classic Reprint written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems The great battle of Flodden was fought upon the 9th of September, 1513. The defeat of the Scottish army, mainly owing to the fantastic ideas of chivalry entertained by James IV., and his refusal to avail himself of the natural advantages of his position, was by far the most disastrous of any recounted in the history of the northern wars. The whole strength of the kingdom, both Lowland and Highland, was assembled, and the contest was one of the sternest and most desperate upon record. For several hours the issue seemed doubtful. On the left the Scots obtained a decided advantage on the right wing they were broken and overthrown; and at last the whole weight of the battle was brought into the centre, where King James and the Earl of Surrey commanded in person. 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.

Download or read book Ballads and Lays From Scottish History Classic Reprint written by Norval Clyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ballads and Lays From Scottish History tions, or those of private families. No endeavour is made to imitate the style of the old Ballads; and if M the following pieces exhibit any portion of the spirit that characterizes the ancient minstrelsy, they owe it to the stirring interest of their themes. The bistori. 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.

Download or read book Scottish Tragic Ballads Classic Reprint written by John Pinkerton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Tragic 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.

Download or read book The Best English and Scottish Ballads Classic Reprint written by Edward Andem Bryant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Best English and Scottish Ballads Durham Field, Otterburn, and Chevy Chase, down to less-renowned Border feuds; and in Book VI, certain late ballads, among them some of the best-known, e. G. Barbara Allen and Lord Bateman, but revealing this form of verse at once at the height of perfection and at the begin ning of its decline. In this arrangement the work follows to an extent the idea of Sir A. T. Quiller Couch in his admirable Oxford collection, in which, it may be added, that experienced author and anthologizer renders the same service to the ballad as to all literary subjects which he touches. 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.

Download or read book Ballads from Scottish History Classic Reprint written by Norval Clyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ballads From Scottish History All other cities. SO wrote his successor in the seventh century. In the nineteenth, how much farther might we not continue this climax of eulogy! It is enough to say, that wherever the faith Of Christ is preached, the memory Of the Saint Of Iona is had in honour; and, as a late instance of this, the first edifice consecrated for Christian worship, west Of the Mississippi, and north of the Falls of St. Anthony, among a savage Indian tribe, is the ciiiu'cii of St. 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.

Download or read book The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland Classic Reprint written by John Storm Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland Some modern editors and writers can still afford to look with contempt or patronage on our Ballad Literature. I have heard of one living editor who boasted that he had compiled his collection, &c., within the space of a fortnight; and another more recently, in his Introduction, made merry over the care and trouble his predecessors had taken in providing materials for his use. N 0 one who has any knowledge of the subject can afford to Speak lightly ot the value of the labours of such men as Percy, Herd, Ritson, Scott, Motherwell, Buchan, 810. &c.; the service they have rendered in collecting, and illustrating them, is not to be estimated. The popular novel or poem of this year may be forgotten the next, or may have the good fortune to live for a generation, but the bulk of our early Ballads must claim a more than passing attention as long as our Language and Literature endure. 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.