Download or read book Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland written by Richard John King and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland written by Anonymous and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland written by Richard John King and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1842 Edition.
Download or read book SELECTIONS FROM EARLY BALLAD P written by Rochard J. Ed King and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by R. Adelaide Witham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Popular Ballads: Selected and Edited for Study Under the Supervision of William Allan Neilson, Professor of English, Harvard University The present volume is designed to meet the needs of a less advanced class of students than is provided for in the comprehensive collections of the late Pro fessor Child or in the edition by Kittredge and Sargent in the Cambridge Poets series. Those great sources of material and illustration have been drawn upon, as was inevitable, with great freedom; and this selection is to be regarded as an introduction which, it is hoped, may allure students to a more exhaustive study of the subject. With this end in view, the attempt has been made to lay solid foundations for the understand ing and appreciation of ballad poetry by making the selection representative, by refraining from any tam pering with the texts, either in spelling or in readings, and by supplying abundant references to works in which the study of ballads may be further pursued. 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 Ballad Poetry Classic Reprint written by George Eyre-Todd and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Ballad Poetry Since the days of Allan Ramsay there have been published many admirable collections of Scottish ballads. Some of these, such as the collections of Jamieson, Buchan, and Kinloch, have had for their intention the preservation of ballads or versions of ballads previously unpublished. Others, like the collections of Chambers and Aytoun, have contained avowed collations of the different versions of ballads already printed. The present volume follows another plan. Collated versions remain always unsatisfactory, the distinct character of the ballad as handed down by tradition being invariably weakened by the modern touch, and the fresh charm spoilt by the smell of the lamp. They are, besides, unnecessary, the best version in every case equalling the best collation, and more than making up by vivid strength and truth for what it may appear to lack in multiplicity of detail. A comparison has accordingly been made of all the original versions of each ballad, and in every case what has appeared to be the best version has been printed faithfully without alteration. The volume is an attempt to furnish, in authentic form, a collection of what is finest in the ballad poetry of Scotland. Ballads by recognised poets like Henryson, James V., and Motherwell have not been included. 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 384 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 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2 This ballad and the two which follow it are clearly not of the same use, and not meant for the same ears, as those which go before. They would come down by professional rather than by domestic tradition, through minstrels rather than knitters and weavers. They suit the hall better than the bower, the tavern or public square better than the cottage, and would not go to the Spinning-wheel at all. An exceedingly good piece of minstrelsy The Boy and the Mantle' is, too; much livelier than most of the numerous variations on the somewhat overhandled theme. 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 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 English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 10 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 10 P. 300. I have serious doubts whether this offensive ballad has not been made too important; whether, not withstanding the points noted at p. 301, it is anything more than a variety of The Queen of all Sluts.' 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 English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 4 I would acknowledge with particular gratitude the liberality of the hon. Mrs max well-scott in allowing the examination and use of the rich store of ballads accumulated at Abbotsford by her immortal ancestor; and also that of lord rosebery in sending to Edinburgh for inspection the collection of rare Scottish broadsides formed by the late David Laing, and permitting me to print several articles. The rev. S. Baring-gould has done me the great favor of furnishing me with copies of traditional ballads and songs taken down by him in the West of England. I am much indebted to the rev. W. Forbes-leith for his good offices, and to MR mac math, as I have been all along, for help of every description. 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 Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland: Romantic and Historical, Collated and Annotated Ballads may therefore be reasonably regarded as the earlier nay, probably, as the very earliest, form of literary composition, and more especially as the earliest expression Of the Historic Muse; an Opinion eloquently set forth and amply illustrated by Lord Macaulay, in the preface to his Lays of Ancient Rome. The same, or a similar Opinion, appears to have commended itself to other distinguished writers and scholars, as the following quotations indicate. 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 Ballad Poetry of Ireland Classic Reprint written by Charles Gavan Duffy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballad Poetry of Ireland Three editions of this collection having been exhausted in less than a month, the publisher has called upon me to prepare a fourth; and with this object I have gone over it carefully, and expunged as many as I could detect of the original sins incident to early editions - errors of the press, of haste, and of carelessness. Something of this kind was done for the Third Edition but there was not leisure to do it carefully. It will now, I trust, be found tolerably free from errors of the class chargeable on an editor. The success of these ballads seems to me to give happy promise of a vigorous and national literature in Ireland. Ballads have been among the first home-grown productions of all countries and their popularity here now is no slight evidence that the national mind is still fresh and earnest, and has the impulses and propensities that belong to a young nation. 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 English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 3 of 5 written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3 of 5: Part II There attributed to Jacques de Vitry, but not found in his Exempla. Professor Crane informs me that, though the Scala Celi cites Jacques de Vitry sixty-two times, only fourteen of such exempla occur among J. De V.'s. A boon, a boon our gracious king, That you sent so hastily.' 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.
