Author: J. Pitts (printer, London)
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Category : English ballads and songs
Languages : en
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Author: John Bartlett
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Category : Fish-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 946

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Author: John Russell Smith
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415372237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Lively, exciting, amusing - this collection of ballads reveal the bawdy, anarchic sub-culture of England before the Industrial Revolution. Drawn from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it demonstrates the great wealth and variety of the English broadside ballads during these periods. At this time political balladry was rife and Irish ballads began to be composed in English - their distinctive background giving them a unique range of poetry. Indeed, these ballads represent an extensive, varied and important area of English literature. Written, as the editors observe, 'to provide a moment in which listeners could enjoy verse, wit and song', they very much reflect the lively observation, love of detail and social awareness of the age of the novel. This volume includes 127 ballads, ranging from 'Admiral Benbow' and 'The Jolly Bacchanal' to 'The Bottle the Best Companion' and 'The Young Man's Fortune'. Reprinted from contemporary or near-contemporary broadsides in the Madden Collection at the University Library, Cambridge, the head and tail blocks, a distinguished feature of the original texts, are also reproduced for this edition. The introduction is designed to enable individuals to read the texts in perspective and with pleasure. The book further includes a select bibliography and an index of ballad titles. This book was first published in 1975.

Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: John Russell Smith
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376857054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: John Russell Smith
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ISBN: 9781332228577
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of an Unique Collection of Ancient English Broadside Ballads: Printed Entirely in the Black Letter The singular collection of original ballads, briefly described in the following pages, consists exclusively of pieces in the black-letter or old English type, nearly all of which belong, moreover, to that rarest and most interesting class, the really vernacular fugitive ballads of the common people. There is a wide difference, noticed especially in sheet-ballads of the seventeenth century, between thole which emanated from the more cultivated writers, and those which were the authentic productions either of or written for the street ballad-finger. The former are purer in their diction, usually more ambitious as to typography, and are either not embellished with woodcuts, or, if so, with illustrations superior to the rude designs that adorn the others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
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