| A Collection of Ballads Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674344483 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.93 lbs) 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely under-stood, and was little practised. Editors were con-tent to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and North-ern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the bal-lads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with Eu-ropean M rchen, or children's tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more re-cent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical ex-ample is the Song of Lamech in Genesis-" |