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Bezig met laden... The Border Ballads (1973)door James Reed
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a good selection of the Scottish border ballads, with an introduction by James Reed and helpful maps of the territories of the "surnames" (he Border equivalent of Highland clans) and of the Anglo-Scottish Border itself. The ballads are organized by the three "marches" of the border (West, Middle and East) ; some are based, at least loosely, on real raids such as "The Battle of Otterburn," others are frankly supernatural, as in "Tamlane," Thomas the Rhymer," and "The Wife of Usher's Well." I have loved these songs since I was young. Although my genetic heritage is only slightly Scottish, I grew up in the Presbyterian Church and read Walter Scott in my youth, ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The Border ballads are the creation of a medieval frontier community who were Borderers before they were Scots or English and whose first allegiance was to the kinship group, the Surname. In this study, James Reed discusses the ballads within their geographical and historical environment as the unique record of a people tenuously surviving in a world of poverty, violence and superstition, yet singing down the centuries their strange and melancholy tales of love and hate and longing, of thieving and killing, of jealousy, incest, witchcraft and revenge. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.04Literature English English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Lyric and balladic poetryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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