The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol 1 - Softcover

Child, Francis James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970702019 ISBN 13: 9780970702012

Publisher: Loomis House Pr, 2002

Synopsis

First published 1883-1898, Professor Child's monumental work on the ballad tradition of England and Scotland stands as a foundation document for all subsequent ballad scholarship and for trends such as the twentieth century folk revival.

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads presents 305 distinct ballads, -- Volume I contains 1-53 -- most with multiple variants, with commentary that traces the origins of the ballad stories through the literature and traditions of much of the western world. Professor Child's painstaking research ranges from ancient Greece to medieval Norway, with translations and detailed citations for all of the sources on which he draws.

Out of print for decades, editions of this seminal work have become scarce. Loomis House Press is pleased to present the first new (non-facsimile) edition of the Child collection, completely re-set and edited to include all of Professor Child's post-publication corrections and additions. Volume I includes 77 ballad texts from the additions and 60 ballad tunes drawn from Child's original sources.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Loomis House Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0970702019
• ISBN 13: 9780970702012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672