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The Minstrelsy Of The English Border: Being A Collection Of Ballads, Ancient, Remodelled, And Original, Founded On Well Known Border Legends

The Minstrelsy Of The English Border: Being A Collection Of Ballads, Ancient, Remodelled, And Original, Founded On Well Known Border Legends

Sheldon, Frederick

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General PoetryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354503802
ISBN13: 9789354503801
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Where the Border winds blow, stories sing. Old songs, sharp as steel. The Minstrelsy Of The English Border gathers a richly varied traditional ballad anthology: ballads ancient, remodelled, and newly fashioned in the spirit of the marches. Here are folk song collection favourites and narrative verse ballads shaped from border legend ballads of raids, loyalties, feuds, and hard-won honour along the Anglo-Scottish border. Frederick Sheldon curates the music of the past without burying it in dust, offering British folklore tales that move quickly, speak plainly, and linger long after the last refrain. Some pieces keep the lean force of oral song; others are refined into lyrical retellings, inviting you to compare versions and hear how a tale changes in the telling. It is a book for browsing, reading aloud, or tracing a legend back to its roots. Rooted in medieval Britain legends yet presented for nineteenth-century tastes, these romantic heroic legends sit beside the wider tradition that later readers meet through Child ballads reference and the enduring shadow of Sir Walter Scott ballads. For Victorian poetry readers, it is a fireside companion; for modern readers, an atmospheric gateway into regional history and the living craft of story-song. It also serves English literature study, showing how oral tradition becomes print and how the Border reshaped national imagination. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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