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The Penguin Poets
Border Ballads
PRE-ISBN
From the front-inside cover:
The ballads make a double appeal to the reader of poetry. They not only contain magnificent poetry: they have been an important influence on poets from Coleridge onwards. Except Chevy Chase, the English counterpart of The Battle of Otterburn, all the pieces printed here are associated with the south of Scotland. Most of the versions are taken from Sir Walter Scot’s Minstrelry of the Scottish Border (first published 1802 – 3), which has been supplemented from the collections of other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors beginning with Allan Ramsay (1726). The selection covers riding ballads such as Sir Patrick Spens, tragic and supernatural ballads such as Clerk Saunders and The Wife of Usher’s Well, and a purely comic ballad Get Up and Bar the Door. A list of common Scots words and their English equivalents is supplied, and other usages are explained in convenient marginal glosses. A short introduction attempts to say something about the elusive subject of the Border ballads as literature.
From the front-inside cover:
The ballads make a double appeal to the reader of poetry. They not only contain magnificent poetry: they have been an important influence on poets from Coleridge onwards. Except Chevy Chase, the English counterpart of The Battle of Otterburn, all the pieces printed here are associated with the south of Scotland. Most of the versions are taken from Sir Walter Scot’s Minstrelry of the Scottish Border (first published 1802 – 3), which has been supplemented from the collections of other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors beginning with Allan Ramsay (1726). The selection covers riding ballads such as Sir Patrick Spens, tragic and supernatural ballads such as Clerk Saunders and The Wife of Usher’s Well, and a purely comic ballad Get Up and Bar the Door. A list of common Scots words and their English equivalents is supplied, and other usages are explained in convenient marginal glosses. A short introduction attempts to say something about the elusive subject of the Border ballads as literature.
- GenresPoetry
247 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1952
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