The Best English and Scottish Ballads (Classic Reprint)

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Durham Field, Otterburn, and Chevy Chase, down to less-renowned Border feuds; and in Book VI, certain late ballads, among them some of the best-known, e. G. Barbara Allen and Lord Bateman, but revealing this form of verse at once at the height of perfection and at the begin ning of its decline. In this arrangement the work follows to an extent the idea of Sir A. T. Quiller Couch in his admirable Oxford collection, in which, it may be added, that experienced author and anthologizer renders the same service to the ballad as to all literary subjects which he touches.

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