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A Book of Old English Ballads |
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In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which is still, it is to be feared, unfamiliar to a large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment and delight.
With an Accompaniment of Decorative Drawings
By George Wharton Edwards And an Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie
[1896] CONTENTS
Introduction Chevy Chace King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid King Leir and his Three Daughters Fair Rosamond Phillida and Corydon Fair Margaret and Sweet William Annan Water The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Barbara Allen's Cruelty The Douglas Tragedy Young Waters Flodden Field Helen of Kirkconnell Robin Hood and Allen a Dale Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne Robin Hood's Death and Burial The Twa Corbies Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny The Nut brown Maid The Fause Lover The Mermaid The Battle of Otterburn The Lament of the Border Widow The Banks o' Yarrow Hugh of Lincoln Sir Patrick Spens Introduction
Goethe, who saw so many things with such clearness of vision,
brought out the charm of the popular ballad for readers of a later
day in his remark that the value of these songs of the people is to
be found in the fact that their motives are drawn directly from
nature; and he added, that in the art of saying things compactly,
uneducated men have greater skill than those who are educated... Continue reading book >>
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