These 176 selections by the master anthologist exhibit such lyrics familiar to this day as “I Saw Three Ships” and long epical ballads like the 3334-line Robin Hood Ballads.
To the One Survivor of Three Men to Whom All Lovers of the Ballad Owe Most in These Times: FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL and JOHN WESLEY HALES
OXFORD: CLARENDON, 1910 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001
