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| [Ballads] appealed to something young in the national mind, and the young still ramp through Percy’s Reliques—as I hope they will through this book. |
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| The Oxford Book of Ballads |
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| Chosen and Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch |
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| These 176 selections by the master anthologist exhibit such lyrics familiar to this day as “I Saw Three Ships” and long epical ballads like the 3334-line Robin Hood Ballads. |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Preface |
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To the One Survivor of Three Men to Whom All Lovers of the Ballad Owe Most in These Times: FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL and JOHN WESLEY HALES |
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OXFORD: CLARENDON, 1910
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001 |
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- Contents
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- Index of Titles
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- Index of First Lines
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