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Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary
and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a
tremendous store of folk music material over many years and
eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book
comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to
medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes
individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal
accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all
together at the end of the volume.
Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary
and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a
tremendous store of folk music material over many years and
eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book
comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to
medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes
individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal
accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all
together at the end of the volume.
If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of
folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous
anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking
peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long
tradition--stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser,
and their many contemporaries as they are to us.
"This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . .
."--"Times Educational Supplement "
." . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the
tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk
stories."--"Choice "
"This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's
attempts to comprehend his world."--"Quartet "
""Folktales of England "is by all odds the most satisfactory
general collection of folktales to come out of England since the
advent of modern collection and classification techniques."--Ernest
W. Baughman, "Journal of American Folklore "
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