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 to cart. $16.98, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Dover Publications.
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Very Good. No Jacket. This is a hardcover edition, published by Peter Smith, of the Dover reprint of the final 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 266 to 305, additions and corrections to ballads from the previous four volumes, glossary, bibliography, various indexes, and an essay by Walter Morris Hart, "Professor Child and the Ballad" (red cloth with black lettering on spine, front cover is creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; Volume IV also available)
Add this copy of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Volume 5 to cart. $18.00, good condition, Sold by Bingo Used Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Dover Publications.
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