Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense "Madden Collection" in the University Library, Cambridge, continues the same literary emphasis, especially with a large number of pieces exploiting all the bustle, humour and variety of ...
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Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense "Madden Collection" in the University Library, Cambridge, continues the same literary emphasis, especially with a large number of pieces exploiting all the bustle, humour and variety of life in London - the colourful, crowded, rapidly-expanding metropolis of the period. Other sections concentrate on more traditional themes like crime and transportation, religion (some moving 'freemason' songs), love-making, sex and the 'sex war': or on fashion, the Royal Family and its escapades, and life in the army or navy. There is also an extensive collection of 'Napoleon' ballads, ranging from the early years through to his final re-internment in Paris. This book, illustrated with some remarkable large-scale contemporary woodcuts, should interest not only social historians and students of literature, but also all who have an ear for the verse of the people. This book was first published in 1979.
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Add this copy of Later English Broadside Ballads to cart. $13.05, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by University of Nebraska Press.
Add this copy of Later English Broadside Ballads to cart. $17.46, very good condition, Sold by Curious Book Shop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by University of Nebraska Press.
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Very Good with no dust jacket; Jacket spine faded, 3" rough tear back. 0803208537. Collects a wide variety of broadside ballads from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.; 8vo; 296 pages.
Add this copy of Later English Broadside Ballads to cart. $19.99, very good condition, Sold by Book Bear rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from West Brookfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by University of Nebraska Press.
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Very Good. Acceptable to Good Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 296. 296 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Acceptable to good dust jacket. The primary reason for the lower jacket rating is because the spine is faded from 'dark peach" to "lemon yellow". Dust jacket not price clipped.
Add this copy of Later English Broadside Ballads (Volume 2) to cart. $37.57, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1979 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 0710002823.
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