The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3 - Softcover

Child, Francis James

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Synopsis

Published between 1882 and 1898, this definitive collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentary for each work. Volume III includes Parts V and VI of the original set — ballads 114–188: "Mary Hamilton," "Flodden Field," "Sir Andrew Barton," and more than 30 ballads about Robin Hood.

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About the Author

Francis James Child (1825-1896) was educated at Harvard, Berlin, and Göttingen, and taught at Harvard for fifty years, in Rhetoric, English, and Modern Languages.

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