English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from English and Scottish Popular Ballads The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by the late Francis James Child, was published in ten parts, forming five large volumes, from 1882 to 1898. It contains three hundred and five distinct ballads, but the number of texts printed in full is much larger than this, for Professor Childs plan was to give every extant version of every ballad. Thus of No.4, Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, he published nine different versions; of No.58, Sir Patrick Spens, eighteen; of No.173, Mary Hamilton, twenty-eight, and so on. Each ballad has an introduction dealing with the history and bibliography of the piece, and containing a full account of parallels in foreign languages, and, in general, of the diffusion of the story, with other pertinent matter. There are also exhaustive collations, elaborate bibliographies, an index of published ballad airs, a collection of tunes, and, in a word, all the apparatus necessary for the study of this kind of literature. The present volume offers a selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr Child, and is prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection (except Nos.33, 279, 281, 290, and 299)is represented by one or more versions, without the apparatus criticus, and with very short introductions. The notes, which are necessarily brief, give specimens (and specimens only) of significant stanzas from versions not included in the volume. The numbers(1-305) and letters (A, B, etc.) correspond to the designations used in the large collection, and there is, in every case, an implied reference to that work for further information. For instance, The Twa Sistei s(No. 10)is here represented by two versions, A and B, selected from those published by Mr Child, which (as the note on p.642 indicates) are twenty-seven in number. To A is prefixed (both in this volume and in the large collection) a memorandum of the four sources (a, b, c, d) from which Mr Child derived this version. The text, as printed on pp. 18, 19, is identical with the text of a as edited by Mr Child, but the variant readings, fully registered in the large collection, are omitted. The short introduction to No.10 is extracted from Mr Childs eight-page introduction, to which the student who wishes to pursue the subject will naturally have recourse. Mr Childs own words are retained whenever that was possible. The present volume, it will be observed, is neither a new edition of the collection of Mr Child nora substitute for it. It differs from that work in scope and purpose. Yet it is, in a manner, complete in itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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