1st Edition
Later English Broadside Ballads Volume 2
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense Madden Collection in the University Library, Cambridge,... Read more
Abbreviations -- Introduction to Volume 2 -- The Ballads -- 1 The Ballad and its Singers -- 2 Love Songs and Narratives -- 3 Sex Tricks and the Sex War -- 4 Rambles and Rigs -- 5 Marriage -- 6 Comic Ballads -- 7 Social Life -- 8 Religion and Morals -- 9 Rural Life -- 10 Crime -- 11 The Army and the Navy -- 12 Napoleon -- 13 The State of the Nation -- 14 The Royal Family -- 15 ‘Ballads on a Subject’ -- 16 Fashion -- 17 Trades Ballads -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.
Biography
John Holloway and Joan Black
