Simile And Metaphor In The English And Scottish Ballads (1892) - Couverture rigide

Odell, George Clinton Densmore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0548909121 ISBN 13 : 9780548909126

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The edition of the ballads used in the preparation of this essay is the well-known collection of Professor Francis J. Child, of Harvard University. This collection, entitled English and Scottish Popular Ballads, was published in Boston in 1857-58, and contains in its eight generous volumes all the material needed for a paper of the present scope. The early edition of Professor Child, for various reasons, was used in preference to the new and somewhat larger edition which is just completed and which will surely become the abiding monument of ballad literature. In the first place, the new edition was unfinished until the bulk of the essay was in final form, and, more important still, that edition with its complicated system of including all ballads of the same nature under one general head paved the way to certain difiiculties which, in the matter of reference, would inevitably lead to confusion. In view of this fact, it seemed permissible to use the older yet by no means unsatisfactory edition of 1857-58. The ballads in this early collection taken from Percy s Reliques, I have carefully collated with the reprint of the Percy Folio MS., and none of the learned bishops interpolations have been allowed to stand among the figures quoted in the essay. The titles of the ballads mentioned in the text that follows, except in the few cases where specific reference is made to the Percy Folio MS., are given as they occur in the older Child edition, and the figures appended to the title in each instance refer, respectively, to the line of the poem, and tlie volume and the page of that edition. The various ballad collections of Percy, Ritson, Scott, Motherwell, A ytoun, etc.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548909121
• ISBN 13: 9780548909126
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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