The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
by Francis James Child (Editor)
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- Language: English
"The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 4 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly anthology published between 1882-1898. This volume forms part of Child's monumental collection of 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland. The ballads explore dark themes including forbidden love, supernatural encounters, family conflict, murder, and folk heroes like Robin Hood and King Arthur. Child's systematic approach—classifying variants and comparing versions—created the definitive scholarly edition of these centuries-old songs, preserving stories ranging from medieval manuscripts to eighteenth-century broadsides. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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