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This definitive 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentary for each work. Volume IV include

The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection

This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and mus