IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

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Who doesn’t love a good rock ballad? Even the most vapid of operatic rock love songs are still quite good songs in their own right. However, there’s something so emotional and raw about a song that ...

"A selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr. Child ... prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection ...