Ballad Books and Ballad Men : Raids and Rescues in Britain, America, and the Scandinavian North since 1800

Popular Ballad (1907), pp. 331-332. ' The Beginnings of Poetry, p. 473. 3 The Introduction to the one-volume edition of Child's Ballads, edited by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge. < Andrew Lang closes a review of the Sargent-Kittredge volume with the following words: "Mr. Kittredge's theory of ballad origins is one with which I so heartily sympathise that an opponent might be a more useful critic," PREFACE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. SOME DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS CHAPTER II. SIR WALTER SCOTT CHAPTER III. THE BALLAD CLAN OF SCOTT CHAPTER IV. SOUTH OF THE BORDER CHAPTER V. SEVENTY YEARS OF BRITISH VARIA CHAPTER VI. THE SCANDINAVIANS AND THEIR KIN CHAPTER VII. SVEND GRUNDTVIG AND THE MODERN SCHOOL IN DENMARK CHAPTER VIII. FRANCIS JAMES CHILD AND OTHER AMERICANS CHAPTER IX. IN FINE APPENDIXES APPENDIX A. THE GRUNDTVIG-CHILD CORRESPONDENCE APPENDIX Β. THE GRUNDTVIG-CHILD INDEX OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX In this book the scholar and the general reader will find a comprehensive survey of the work of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child and his successors in Britain and America. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child