This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and mus

This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes and glosses. The versions come from the last three centurie

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes writ