Among the Old Scotch Minstrels Studying Their Ballads of War, Love, Social Life, Folk-Lore and Fairyland (1888)
Not a few students of the Old Scottish Ballads have endeavoured, with less or more success, to identify their heroes and heroines with real personages, to fix with some degree of precision the scenery of the incidents, and to ascertain the historical value of such metrical tales as relate to matters of national importance. Into these well-traversed fields of inquiry the author of this volume has rarely ventured. He has approached the ballads in a sympathetic spirit, accepting them as the genuine utterances of men who made it their business and their pleasure to instruct and entertain the public, and had full faith in their mission. He has aim…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84530-090-6
- EAN: 9781845300906
- Produktnummer: 9032863
- Verlag: Grimsay Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 356 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
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