The Minstrelsy of the English Border
Author : Frederick Sheldon
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Sheldon
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : Frederick Sheldon
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1805
Category : Scottish poetry
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857908014
In 2013 Ian Crofton undertook a journey he had been pondering for years: a walk along the Border between Scotland and England. It would be an exploration both of his own identity - not quite Scottish, not quite English - and of a largely unexplored stretch of country. Apart from the line marked on the map, the route is not obvious. For much of its length the Border either follows the middle of various rivers, or traces the Southern Upland watershed, an area of bleak moorland and dense conifer plantations. During the course of his walk, Ian Crofton investigates the history, literature and legend of the Border. He talks to a range of people he comes across - farmers, landladies, bar staff, anglers, labourers, shepherds, shopkeepers - to find out what they make of the Border, if anything at all. Such conversations lead to a consideration of the very nature of borders. Do they provide a necessary defence of the nationstate? Or are they, in this day and age, an affront to global justice? Walking the Border is in the best traditions of travel writing, combining vivid description with human insight, the whole spiced with a wry sense of the absurdity and necessity of both inward and outward journeys.
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521895766
Shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by literary and cultural researches into oral, vernacular poetries in the late eighteenth-century.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN :
Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, "antiquarian old womanries," as Sir Walter called them, may ask "what all the pother is about," in this little tractate. On my side it is "about" the veracity of Sir Walter Scott. He has been suspected of helping to compose, and of issuing as a genuine antique, a ballad, Auld Maitland. He also wrote about the ballad, as a thing obtained from recitation, to two friends and fellow-antiquaries. If to Scott's knowledge it was a modern imitation, Sir Walter deliberately lied.