A collection of
national
English airs .
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
Paris, 1875.
Les Origines de la Poésie lyrique en France au Moyen Âge. Extrait du
Journal des Savants. 1892.
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Française.
Vol. 1, pp. 345 ff. : Les Chansons, by Jeanroy, M. Paris, 1896.
Proctor, F. et Wordsworth, C. Breviarum ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Sarum.
3 vols. Cambridge, 1882-6.
Raynaud, G. Recueil de Motets français des douzième et treizième Siècles.
2 vols. Paris, 1882-3.
Rondeaux et autres Poésies du xv• Siècle. Paris, 1889.
Rimbault, E. F. Book of Christmas Carols, with Ancient Melodies. 1847.
A Little Book of Songs and Ballads. 1851.
Sandys, W. Christmastide: its History, Festivities and Carols. [No date. ]
Schipper, J. Englische Metrik, in Historischen und Systematischer Ent-
wickelung Dargestellt. 2 vols. Bonn, 1881.
Schmeller, J. A. Carmina Burana, Lateinische und Deutsche Lieder und
Gedichte, einer Handschrift des xili Jahrhunderts aus Benedictbeuren,
auf der K. Bibliothek zu München. Breslau, 1904.
Sharp, C. J. English Folk-Song: some conclusions. 1907.
Songs and Madrigals of the Fifteenth Century. Plain Song Society. 1891.
Thien, H. Über die Englischen Marienklagen. Kiel, 1906.
Tiersot, J. Histoire de la Chanson populaire en France. Paris, 1889.
Wallaschek, R. Primitive Music: an Inquiry into the Origin and Develop-
ment of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage
Races. 1893.
Warton, T. History of English Poetry, from the Twelfth to the close of the
Sixteenth Century. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
Wechssler, E. Die romanischen Marienklagen. Halle, 1893.
CHAPTER XVII
BALLADS
Brandl, Aloig. A good account of English and Scottish ballads in Paul's
Grundriss der germanischen Philologie, vol. II, Strassburg, 1893.
Child, F. J. (ed. ). The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. , 10
parts. Boston and New York, 1882-98. Practically a new work, and
in no sense a second edition of Child's earlier collection in eight vols. ,
Boston, 1857-8. The fifth volume (1898) contains a bibliography1 (pp.
503-566), which, with the Sources of the Texts (pp. 397-405), the Titles
of Collections of Ballads (pp. 455-469), indexes, lists of ballad-airs and
tunes and other helps, furnishes a complete apparatus for the student
of the particular subject. There is, however, no corresponding biblio-
graphy of the ballad at large; for Child did not live to write his greatly
desired general introduction.
1 The introduction to each of the separate ballads, with the Additions and
Corrections, gives a bibliography for the study of that ballad in all its relations.
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493
Child, F. J. (ed. ). Article on Ballads, in Johnson's Cyclopaedia. New York,
1893. While the author wished no stress to be laid upon this article
with regard to general questions, it gives a clear account of the scope
and connections of British ballads and a brief description of those of
other lands.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. 1895. Vol. 1, chap. xi,
The Decay of English Minstrelsy. Defends minstrel authorship, though
seemingly a lost cause.
Gummere, F. B. Introduction to Old English Ballads. Boston, 1894. Sub-
sequent editions unchanged: it contains an account of ballad criticism
in England and Germany. See also, by the same writer, The Ballad
and Communal Poetry, Child Memorial volume (v) of the Harvard
Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Boston, 1896; Primitive
Poetry and the Ballad, in Modern Philology, 1, Chicago, 1903-4; and The
Popular Ballad, 1907.
Hales, J. W. and Furnivall, F. J. (ed. ). Percy Folio Manuscript. 3 vols. and
a supplement. 1867-8. This made possible the collection now recog-
nised as final.
Hecht, H. , sums up the Neuere Literatur zur Englisch-schottischen
Balladendichtung in Englische Studien, xxxvi, 1906.
Henderson, T. F. Revised edition of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1902. With a general preface and particular
introductions which tend to trace each ballad to individual authors like
Burns and Scott.
Kittredge, G. L. Introduction to the one-volume edition of Child's Ballads.
Edited by Mrs Sargent and himself. Boston, 1904. This volume in-
cludes one or more versions of practically all the ballads, and the
introduction is a clear exposition of the doctrine that popular ballads
really belong to the people.
Lang, A. Article on Ballads, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition. Lang
has expressed his opinion on the ballad-question in recent papers; in
particular may be noted his discussion of the ballad Auld Maitland in
Folk Lore, XIII, 191 ff. (1902), and his argument for communal author-
ship, ibid. xiv, 147 ff. (1903).
Sidgwick, F. Popular Ballads of the Olden Time. 1903, 1904, 1907. 3 series.
2 vols, issued so far. The introduction inclines to the theory that ballads
belong to the people, but makes allowance for opposing views such as
those of G. Gregory Smith and T. F. Henderson.
Smith, G. Gregory. The Transition Period. 1900. Chap. VI.
Older criticism, foreign and domestic, of English ballads is summarised
in F. B. Gummere's Introduction to Old English Ballads cited above. For
admirable discussion of ballad poetry in other lands see the introduction to
Constantino Nigra’s Canti Popolari del Piemonte, Turin, 1888, pp. xi-xxxvii,
and Gaston Paris, De l'Étude de la Poésie Populaire, in Melusine, 1, 1 ff.
Opposed to their doctrine is John Meier, whose Kunstlieder im Volksmunde,
Halle, 1906, indicates its theory by its title, and is not very far from
Henderson's point of view. It must be remembered, finally, that the majority
of the poems published by the Ballad Society, such as street-songs,
broadsides and popular ditties of every sort, belongs not to the subject of
this chapter, but to journalism.
The following books may also be consulted:
Addison, J. The Spectator. Nos. 70, 74. For Chevy Chase, eto,
Allingham, W. The Ballad Book. 1865 ff.
Aytoun, W. E. The Ballads of Scotland. 2 vols. 1858 ff.
## p. 494 (#512) ############################################
494
Bibliography
Bell, R. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
1857.
Buchan, P. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland. 2 vols.
Edinburgh, 1828. Reprinted, 1875, etc.
Chambers, R. Scottish Ballads and Scottish Songs. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1829.
Chappell, W. and Ebsworth, J. W. The Roxburghe Ballads. 9 vols. (27
parts). 1871-99.
-Popular Music of the Olden Time. 2 vols. 1855-9. New ed. , Wooldridge,
H. E. 2 vols. 1893.
A collection of national English airs . . . and essay on English Minstrelsy.
1840.
Davidson, T. , in Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Vol. 1, p. 680. 1888.
Dixon, J. H. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
Percy Soc. 1846.
Scottish traditional versions of ancient ballads. Percy Soc. 1845.
Evans, T. Old Ballads. 2 vols. 1777. Ed. Evans, R. H. 4 vols. 1810.
Fehr, B. Die formelhaften Elemente in den alten Engl. Balladen. Basel,
1900.
Finlay, J. Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads. 2 vols. Edinburgh,
1808.
Flügel, E. Zur Chronologie der Engl. Balladen. Anglia, XXI, 312 ff.
Fränkel, L. Zur Gesch. von Robin Hood. Eng. Stud. XVII, 316.
Gilchrist, J. A collection of Scottish Ballads, etc. 2 vols. Edinburgh,
1815.
Görbing, F. Beispiele von realisierten Mythen in den engl. u. schott. Balladen.
Anglia, XXIII, 1 ff.
Grundtvig, 8. H. Danmarks gamle Folkeviser. 5 vols. Copenhagen,
1853 ff.
Gutch, J. M. A Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode. 2 vols. 1847.
Hales, J. W. Folio Litteraria. 1893. For Chevy Chase.
Herd, D. Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, etc. Edinburgh, 1769. 2nd ed.
1776.
Jamieson, R. Popular Ballads and Songs. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806.
Johnson, J. The Scots Musical Museum. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1787-1803.
Ed. Stenhouse, W. and Laing, D. 4 vols. 1853.
Kinloch, G. Ancient Scottish Ballads. 1827.
Laing, D. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland. 1822.
Ed. Small, J. 1885.
Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Border. 1822-6. Ed.
Hazlitt, W. C. 2 vols. 1895.
Lang, A. Myth, Ritual and Religion. 2 vols. 1887.
In Quarterly Review, July 1898; Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Lit. ,
vol. 1, pp. 520 ff. , 1901; Blackwood's Magazine, CLVIII, Sept. 1895.
Lemcke, C. , in Jahrbuch f. rom, u. engl. Lit. iv, 1, 142, 297 ff.
Maidment, J. A North Countrie Garland. Edinburgh, 1824.
Scottish Ballads. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1868.
Motherwell, W. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Glasgow, 1827.
Newell, W. W. Games and Songs of American Children. New York, 1883.
Percy, T. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. 3 vols. 1765. Ed. Wheatley
H. B. 3 vols. 1876–7. Ed. Schröer, A. 2 Hälften. Heilbronn, 1889-93.
Pinkerton, J. Scottish Tragic Ballads. 1781. See also Select Scottish
Ballads, 2 vols. , 1783.
[Phillips, A. ] A Collection of Old Ballads. 3 vols. 1723-5.
Ramsay, A. The Ever Green. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1724.
The Tea Table Miscellany. 1724 ff. 4 vols.
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Chapter XVII
495
:
Reliquiae Antiquae, ed. Halliwell, J. O. and Wright, T. , for the Judas
ballad (p. 144).
Ritson, J. Ancient Songs and Ballads. 2 vols. 1792. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C.
1877.
Ancient Popular Poetry. 1791. Ed. Goldsmid, E. 1884.
Scotish Song. 2 vols. 1794.
Select Collection of English Songs. 1783. Ed. Park, T. 3 vols. 1813.
Romantic Scottish Ballads: their epoch and authorship. n. d.
Russell, J. The Haigs of Bemersyde. Edinburgh, 1881. _(Chap. xiv for
social conditions of Old Border life, is quoted by Davidson, T. , in Chambers's
Encyclopaedia.
Les Origines de la Poésie lyrique en France au Moyen Âge. Extrait du
Journal des Savants. 1892.
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Française.
Vol. 1, pp. 345 ff. : Les Chansons, by Jeanroy, M. Paris, 1896.
Proctor, F. et Wordsworth, C. Breviarum ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Sarum.
3 vols. Cambridge, 1882-6.
Raynaud, G. Recueil de Motets français des douzième et treizième Siècles.
2 vols. Paris, 1882-3.
Rondeaux et autres Poésies du xv• Siècle. Paris, 1889.
Rimbault, E. F. Book of Christmas Carols, with Ancient Melodies. 1847.
A Little Book of Songs and Ballads. 1851.
Sandys, W. Christmastide: its History, Festivities and Carols. [No date. ]
Schipper, J. Englische Metrik, in Historischen und Systematischer Ent-
wickelung Dargestellt. 2 vols. Bonn, 1881.
Schmeller, J. A. Carmina Burana, Lateinische und Deutsche Lieder und
Gedichte, einer Handschrift des xili Jahrhunderts aus Benedictbeuren,
auf der K. Bibliothek zu München. Breslau, 1904.
Sharp, C. J. English Folk-Song: some conclusions. 1907.
Songs and Madrigals of the Fifteenth Century. Plain Song Society. 1891.
Thien, H. Über die Englischen Marienklagen. Kiel, 1906.
Tiersot, J. Histoire de la Chanson populaire en France. Paris, 1889.
Wallaschek, R. Primitive Music: an Inquiry into the Origin and Develop-
ment of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage
Races. 1893.
Warton, T. History of English Poetry, from the Twelfth to the close of the
Sixteenth Century. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
Wechssler, E. Die romanischen Marienklagen. Halle, 1893.
CHAPTER XVII
BALLADS
Brandl, Aloig. A good account of English and Scottish ballads in Paul's
Grundriss der germanischen Philologie, vol. II, Strassburg, 1893.
Child, F. J. (ed. ). The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. , 10
parts. Boston and New York, 1882-98. Practically a new work, and
in no sense a second edition of Child's earlier collection in eight vols. ,
Boston, 1857-8. The fifth volume (1898) contains a bibliography1 (pp.
503-566), which, with the Sources of the Texts (pp. 397-405), the Titles
of Collections of Ballads (pp. 455-469), indexes, lists of ballad-airs and
tunes and other helps, furnishes a complete apparatus for the student
of the particular subject. There is, however, no corresponding biblio-
graphy of the ballad at large; for Child did not live to write his greatly
desired general introduction.
1 The introduction to each of the separate ballads, with the Additions and
Corrections, gives a bibliography for the study of that ballad in all its relations.
## p. 493 (#511) ############################################
Chapter XVII
493
Child, F. J. (ed. ). Article on Ballads, in Johnson's Cyclopaedia. New York,
1893. While the author wished no stress to be laid upon this article
with regard to general questions, it gives a clear account of the scope
and connections of British ballads and a brief description of those of
other lands.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. 1895. Vol. 1, chap. xi,
The Decay of English Minstrelsy. Defends minstrel authorship, though
seemingly a lost cause.
Gummere, F. B. Introduction to Old English Ballads. Boston, 1894. Sub-
sequent editions unchanged: it contains an account of ballad criticism
in England and Germany. See also, by the same writer, The Ballad
and Communal Poetry, Child Memorial volume (v) of the Harvard
Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Boston, 1896; Primitive
Poetry and the Ballad, in Modern Philology, 1, Chicago, 1903-4; and The
Popular Ballad, 1907.
Hales, J. W. and Furnivall, F. J. (ed. ). Percy Folio Manuscript. 3 vols. and
a supplement. 1867-8. This made possible the collection now recog-
nised as final.
Hecht, H. , sums up the Neuere Literatur zur Englisch-schottischen
Balladendichtung in Englische Studien, xxxvi, 1906.
Henderson, T. F. Revised edition of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1902. With a general preface and particular
introductions which tend to trace each ballad to individual authors like
Burns and Scott.
Kittredge, G. L. Introduction to the one-volume edition of Child's Ballads.
Edited by Mrs Sargent and himself. Boston, 1904. This volume in-
cludes one or more versions of practically all the ballads, and the
introduction is a clear exposition of the doctrine that popular ballads
really belong to the people.
Lang, A. Article on Ballads, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition. Lang
has expressed his opinion on the ballad-question in recent papers; in
particular may be noted his discussion of the ballad Auld Maitland in
Folk Lore, XIII, 191 ff. (1902), and his argument for communal author-
ship, ibid. xiv, 147 ff. (1903).
Sidgwick, F. Popular Ballads of the Olden Time. 1903, 1904, 1907. 3 series.
2 vols, issued so far. The introduction inclines to the theory that ballads
belong to the people, but makes allowance for opposing views such as
those of G. Gregory Smith and T. F. Henderson.
Smith, G. Gregory. The Transition Period. 1900. Chap. VI.
Older criticism, foreign and domestic, of English ballads is summarised
in F. B. Gummere's Introduction to Old English Ballads cited above. For
admirable discussion of ballad poetry in other lands see the introduction to
Constantino Nigra’s Canti Popolari del Piemonte, Turin, 1888, pp. xi-xxxvii,
and Gaston Paris, De l'Étude de la Poésie Populaire, in Melusine, 1, 1 ff.
Opposed to their doctrine is John Meier, whose Kunstlieder im Volksmunde,
Halle, 1906, indicates its theory by its title, and is not very far from
Henderson's point of view. It must be remembered, finally, that the majority
of the poems published by the Ballad Society, such as street-songs,
broadsides and popular ditties of every sort, belongs not to the subject of
this chapter, but to journalism.
The following books may also be consulted:
Addison, J. The Spectator. Nos. 70, 74. For Chevy Chase, eto,
Allingham, W. The Ballad Book. 1865 ff.
Aytoun, W. E. The Ballads of Scotland. 2 vols. 1858 ff.
## p. 494 (#512) ############################################
494
Bibliography
Bell, R. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
1857.
Buchan, P. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland. 2 vols.
Edinburgh, 1828. Reprinted, 1875, etc.
Chambers, R. Scottish Ballads and Scottish Songs. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1829.
Chappell, W. and Ebsworth, J. W. The Roxburghe Ballads. 9 vols. (27
parts). 1871-99.
-Popular Music of the Olden Time. 2 vols. 1855-9. New ed. , Wooldridge,
H. E. 2 vols. 1893.
A collection of national English airs . . . and essay on English Minstrelsy.
1840.
Davidson, T. , in Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Vol. 1, p. 680. 1888.
Dixon, J. H. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
Percy Soc. 1846.
Scottish traditional versions of ancient ballads. Percy Soc. 1845.
Evans, T. Old Ballads. 2 vols. 1777. Ed. Evans, R. H. 4 vols. 1810.
Fehr, B. Die formelhaften Elemente in den alten Engl. Balladen. Basel,
1900.
Finlay, J. Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads. 2 vols. Edinburgh,
1808.
Flügel, E. Zur Chronologie der Engl. Balladen. Anglia, XXI, 312 ff.
Fränkel, L. Zur Gesch. von Robin Hood. Eng. Stud. XVII, 316.
Gilchrist, J. A collection of Scottish Ballads, etc. 2 vols. Edinburgh,
1815.
Görbing, F. Beispiele von realisierten Mythen in den engl. u. schott. Balladen.
Anglia, XXIII, 1 ff.
Grundtvig, 8. H. Danmarks gamle Folkeviser. 5 vols. Copenhagen,
1853 ff.
Gutch, J. M. A Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode. 2 vols. 1847.
Hales, J. W. Folio Litteraria. 1893. For Chevy Chase.
Herd, D. Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, etc. Edinburgh, 1769. 2nd ed.
1776.
Jamieson, R. Popular Ballads and Songs. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806.
Johnson, J. The Scots Musical Museum. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1787-1803.
Ed. Stenhouse, W. and Laing, D. 4 vols. 1853.
Kinloch, G. Ancient Scottish Ballads. 1827.
Laing, D. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland. 1822.
Ed. Small, J. 1885.
Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Border. 1822-6. Ed.
Hazlitt, W. C. 2 vols. 1895.
Lang, A. Myth, Ritual and Religion. 2 vols. 1887.
In Quarterly Review, July 1898; Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Lit. ,
vol. 1, pp. 520 ff. , 1901; Blackwood's Magazine, CLVIII, Sept. 1895.
Lemcke, C. , in Jahrbuch f. rom, u. engl. Lit. iv, 1, 142, 297 ff.
Maidment, J. A North Countrie Garland. Edinburgh, 1824.
Scottish Ballads. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1868.
Motherwell, W. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Glasgow, 1827.
Newell, W. W. Games and Songs of American Children. New York, 1883.
Percy, T. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. 3 vols. 1765. Ed. Wheatley
H. B. 3 vols. 1876–7. Ed. Schröer, A. 2 Hälften. Heilbronn, 1889-93.
Pinkerton, J. Scottish Tragic Ballads. 1781. See also Select Scottish
Ballads, 2 vols. , 1783.
[Phillips, A. ] A Collection of Old Ballads. 3 vols. 1723-5.
Ramsay, A. The Ever Green. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1724.
The Tea Table Miscellany. 1724 ff. 4 vols.
## p. 495 (#513) ############################################
Chapter XVII
495
:
Reliquiae Antiquae, ed. Halliwell, J. O. and Wright, T. , for the Judas
ballad (p. 144).
Ritson, J. Ancient Songs and Ballads. 2 vols. 1792. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C.
1877.
Ancient Popular Poetry. 1791. Ed. Goldsmid, E. 1884.
Scotish Song. 2 vols. 1794.
Select Collection of English Songs. 1783. Ed. Park, T. 3 vols. 1813.
Romantic Scottish Ballads: their epoch and authorship. n. d.
Russell, J. The Haigs of Bemersyde. Edinburgh, 1881. _(Chap. xiv for
social conditions of Old Border life, is quoted by Davidson, T. , in Chambers's
Encyclopaedia.
