Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked on producing this definitive critical edition. Organised into five volumes and published in ten...

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Other Authors:	Child, Francis James 1825-1896 (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Series:	Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Subjects:	Ballads, English / England / Texts Ballads, Scots / Scotland / Texts Schottland
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked on producing this definitive critical edition. Organised into five volumes and published in ten parts between 1882 and 1898, the work includes the text and variants of 305 ballads, with Child's detailed commentary and comparison with ballads and stories from other languages. Although he did not live to fully clarify his methods of selection and classification, modern scholars still refer to the 'Child Ballads' as an essential resource in the study of folk songs and stories in the English language. The work also contains a helpful glossary of archaic terms and a long list of sources. Volume 4, Part 1 (1890) contains ballads 189-225, including 'Katharine Jaffray' and 'Rob Roy'
Item Description:	Originally published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1890
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 254 pages)
ISBN:	9781107711129
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107711129