Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825-96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857-9, before he embarked on producing this definitive critical edition. Organised into five volumes and published in ten parts between 1882 and 1898, the work includes the text and variants of 305 ballads, with Child's detailed commentary and comparison with ballads and stories from other languages. Although he did not live to fully clarify his methods ...
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Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825-96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857-9, before he embarked on producing this definitive critical edition. Organised into five volumes and published in ten parts between 1882 and 1898, the work includes the text and variants of 305 ballads, with Child's detailed commentary and comparison with ballads and stories from other languages. Although he did not live to fully clarify his methods of selection and classification, modern scholars still refer to the 'Child Ballads' as an essential resource in the study of folk songs and stories in the English language. The work also contains a helpful glossary of archaic terms and a long list of sources. Volume 1, Part 1 originally appeared in 1882. This reissue from 1898 contains a biographical sketch of Child, along with ballads 1-28.
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Add this copy of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume IV to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by House of Our Own rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Peter Smith/Dover.
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Very Good. No Jacket. This is a hardcover edition, published by Peter Smith, of the Dover reprint of the fourth volume of this five-volume collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, originally published in the 1880s and 1890s; the editor was a Harvard Professor of English; this volume contains Ballads 189 to 265, and additions and corrections to ballads from the previous three volumes (red cloth with black lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy; Volume V also available)
