Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Vol. 11
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Excerpt from Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Vol. 11: Ballad and Epic, a Study in the Development of the Narrative Art What will, perhaps, cause most alarm to the cautious or scientifically-minded reader of these pages will be the use of modern ballads to represent something anterior to the epics, and the absence of the usual summary and criticism of the "literature of the subject." I have attempted in my Introduction to justify this use of the ballads, and I venture to hope that it finds justification in the book as a whole. The faint-hearted, moreover, may be encouraged by the knowledge that to ten Brink and Gaston Paris such use of the ballads did not seem unreasonable, unless I misinterpret the passages quoted in my Conclusion. The value of the study, however, does not depend wholly upon a time element and a theory of literary evolution or development: in any case, the comparison of a relatively complex with a relatively simple form of narrative may conceivably lead to results of some value in the appreciation of both. Although, as I have said, ten Brink and Paris seem to suggest a comparative study of this kind, it has, so far as I know, never been attempted; and though comment on the narrative art of the Roland, the Beowulf, and the ballads has not been lacking, it has never, so far as I know, covered quite the same ground. Thus, although my evidence is in every case the result of first-hand study of the documents concerned, it is not to be supposed that all my facts are new. Far from it. But my use of the facts is new, and there is, therefore, strictly speaking, no "literature of the subject." The limits of the present volume forbid summary or discussion - even enumeration - of the vast general literature of the Beowulf and the Roland. If I owe little to predecessors in the field, I am all the more deeply indebted to friends, masters, and colleagues. To Professor Gummere I owe my introduction, some fifteen years ago, to the study of popular poetry. 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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