A Book Of Roxburghe Ballads Edited By J P Collier

Author : John Payne Collier
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ISBN 13 : 9781331755500
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Roxburghe Ballads (Classic Reprint) written by John Payne Collier and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Roxburghe Ballads The main purpose of the ensuing collection is to shew, in their most genuine state, the character and quality of productions, written expressly for the amusement of the lower orders, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles. Our volume consists of such ordinary materials as formed the flock of the English ballad-finger during a period not far short of a century. Many traces will be found in them of the modes in which they were rendered acceptable to the crowd, when sung in our most frequented thoroughfares. It would, therefore, be manifestly unfair to judge of them by the standard usually applied to the higher classes of poetry, although poetry of no inferior description will occasionally be found in them: nor are their merits to be measured by the easier process of comparison with well known works, in some respects similar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.