The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5) by Francis James Child
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"The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 2 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly collection published between 1882-1898. This monumental anthology presents 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, meticulously documenting different versions side by side. The ballads explore dark themes including forbidden love, supernatural encounters, family conflict, treachery, murder, and folk heroes like Robin Hood and King Arthur. Child's comprehensive work transformed ballad scholarship, classifying each story with
distinctive numbers while preserving multiple variants that reveal how these haunting tales evolved across centuries and communities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Editor | Child, Francis James, 1825-1896 |
|---|---|
| Title | The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Ballads |
| Credits |
Produced by Simon Gardner, Katherine Ward, Alicia Williams, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Ballads, English -- England -- Texts |
| Subject | Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 47692 |
| Release Date | Dec 17, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 677 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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