Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
Sidgwick
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Sidgwick · 70 chapters
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- Literary English
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- Advanced vocabulary
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Of making selections of ballads there is no end.
Ireland and Wales possess a similar class of popular literature, but each in its own tongue.
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- PREFACESample
- INTRODUCTION
- BALLADS IN THE FIRST SERIES
- GLOSSARY OF BALLAD COMMONPLACES
- LIST OF BOOKS FOR BALLAD STUDY FOR ENGLISH READERS
- Footnotes
- GLASGERION
- YOUNG BEKIE
- OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE
- LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD
- THE BONNY BIRDY
- FAIR ANNIE
- THE CRUEL MOTHER
- CHILD WATERS
- EARL BRAND, THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY, and THE CHILD OF ELL
- LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET
- THE BROWN GIRL
- FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM
- LORD LOVEL
- LADY MAISRY
- THE CRUEL BROTHER
- THE NUTBROWN MAID
- FAIR JANET
- BROWN ADAM
- WILLIE O’ WINSBURY
- THE MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAINE
- THE BOY AND THE MANTLE
- JOHNEY SCOT
- LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
- THE TWA SISTERS O’ BINNORIE
- YOUNG WATERS
- BARBARA ALLAN
- THE GAY GOSHAWK
- BROWN ROBIN
- LADY ALICE
- CHILD MAURICE
- FAUSE FOOTRAGE
- FAIR ANNIE OF ROUGH ROYAL
- HIND HORN
- EDWARD
- LORD RANDAL
- LAMKIN
- FAIR MARY OF WALLINGTON
- INDEX OF TITLES
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES