Faber Book of Ballads
by Matthew Hodgart (Editor)
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Traditional--Robin Hood and border ballads--Scots eighteenth century --Folksong and lyric--Broadside ballads --Irish--Australian and American.Tags
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This copy dates from my undergraduate days. My favourite is probably Corbet's "The Fairies' Farewell", but it is abridged. The full version with all nine verses took some tracking down online, but it is better because it gives a wider picture. Kipling of course used it for his second “Puck” book. Likewise, I prefer the Oxford Book of Ballads version of "Tam Lin", which again I found online.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1965
- People/Characters
- Earl Brand; Lord Randall; Young Beichan/Lord Bateman/Young Bondwell; Young Hunting; Little Musgrave; Lamkin (show all 15); Robin Hood; Edom o Gordon/Adam Gorman; Sir Patrick Spens; Tam Lin; John Barleycorn; Tom Boleyn/Brian O'Lynn; Jack Dulan; Barbara Allen; John Henry
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- Introduction
A ballad is a song that comments on life by telling a story in a popular style.
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- Genres
- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 821.04408 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures British Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Lyric and balladic poetry Ballads Collections of literary texts
- LCC
- PR1181 .H58 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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- English
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