The popular ballad
1907
xiv, 360 pages ; 19 cm Includes bibliographical references and index The ballad: definition and origins ; the meaning of "popular" / communal authorship / communal poetry other than ballads / specific marks of the ballad / the ballad structure / choral and epic elements / incremental repetition as a final proof of popular origin -- The ballads: classification ; the oldest groups / ballads of kinship / the coronach and ballads of the supernatural / legendary ballads / the border ballads / the Greenwood ballads -- The sources of the ballads -- The worth of the ballads
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