| [Ballads] appealed to something young in the national mind, and the young still ramp through Percy’s Reliques—as I hope they will through this book. |
| —Preface |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch |
The Oxford Book of Ballads
Chosen and Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch
These 176 selections by the master anthologist exhibit such lyrics familiar to this day as “I Saw Three Ships” and long epical ballads like the 3334-line Robin Hood Ballads.
Contents
| To the One Survivor of Three Men to Whom All Lovers of the Ballad Owe Most in These Times: FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL and JOHN WESLEY HALES |
| OXFORD: CLARENDON, 1910 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001 |