Poetic origins and the ballad

Louise Pound

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LIBRARYTHE OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOSANGELES OFINMEMORY B. SPORERVIRGINIAMRS. POETIC ORIGINS AND THE BALLAD THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & LIMITEDCO., LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF LTD.CANADA, TORONTO POETIC ORIGINS AND THE BALLAD BY LOUISE Ph.D.POUND, Professor of in the of NebraskaUniversityEnglish COMPANYTHE MACMILLAN 1921 A.II right* reserved COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set and electup retyped. Published, January, 1921. College Library TN TO AND NELLIE ALEXANDERHARTLEY 11S1117 PREFACE The theses of the volume are that thepresentleading which have dominated ourfollowing assumptions long the of and the balladssubject poeticthought upon origins should be or at least should begiven up, seriously quali- " " fied belief in the communal and; namely, authorship of disbelief in theownership primitive poetry; primitive reference to the ballad as the earliest and mostartist; universal belief in the of narrativeform;poetic origin in the definition of the anddance,songs especially English Scottish traditional ballad as dance beliefof ;type origin in the of ballads fromtraditional theemergence illiterate, that belief in the communal creation rather than re-is, creation of belief in of folk-theballads; special powers and belief that the of traditionalimprovisation; making " ballads is a closed account.

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• Ballads

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 24
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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LIBRARYTHE
OF
THEUNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOSANGELES
OFINMEMORY
B. SPORERVIRGINIAMRS.POETIC ORIGINS
AND THE BALLADTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS
ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & LIMITEDCO.,
LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF LTD.CANADA,
TORONTOPOETIC ORIGINS
AND THE BALLAD
BY
LOUISE Ph.D.POUND,
Professor of in the of NebraskaUniversityEnglish
COMPANYTHE MACMILLAN
1921
A.II right* reservedCOPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set and electup retyped. Published, January, 1921.College
Library
TN
TO
AND NELLIE ALEXANDERHARTLEY
11S1117