Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws

Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series

This e-text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browsers default font. This volume concludes the series, begun in 1903, which was intended to comprise all the best traditional ballads of England and Scotland. The scheme of classification by subject-matter, arbitrary and haphazard as it may seem to be at one point or another, has, Ithink, proved more satisfactory than could have been anticipated; and in the end I have omitted no ballad without due justification. In the fourteen years which have elapsed since the completion of Professor Childs collection, there has been discovered, so far as I know, only one ballad that can claim the right to be added to his roll of 305 English and Scottish Popular Ballads. That one is the carol of The Bitter Withy, which I was fortunate enough to recover in 1905, which my friend Professor Gerould of Princeton University has annotated with an erudition worthy of Child, and the genuineness of which has been sponsored by viii Professor Gummere.1 Ishould perhaps have included this in its place in my Second Series, had I known of it in time, but I still hope to treat the traditional English Carols separately. Iought to admit here that the confidence with which I claimed, in my Third Series, aplace on the roll for The Jolly Juggler, has abated, and I now consider it to be no more than a narrative lyric without any definitely popular characteristics. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28744
Author: Sidgwick, Frank
Release Date: May 10, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English