The English Poets: Selections
The English Poets: Selections
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Merrily went the tabor, And merrily went their toes.* Other European ballads are echoes from the same stage of social life, but they are clearer, sweeter, more full and unb roken in tone than the lays of rural England. Our ballads speak of adventures known to Romaic, Danish, and Italian peasants ; but in listening to them we hear thie drawl of the dull rustic, and catch the snivelling drone of the provincial morairstr~ Unlike the Provengal, or Romaic, or Lowland Scotch ballads, the English rema...ins are too often fiat, garrulous, spiritless, and didactic. They lack the picturesqueness, the simplicity, the felicitous choice of expression, the fife, the~ speed' of the best European volks-lieder.
The probable reason of this flatness and languor will be stated presently ; in the meantime we must note that the ballads of the Lowland Scotch, recovered from oral tradition, have the fire which we miss in English popular poems. It is for this reason that many of our selected ballads are chosen from the northern Border.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Merrily went the tabor, And merrily went their toes.* Other European ballads are echoes from the same stage of social life, but they are clearer, sweeter, more full and unb roken in tone than the lays of rural England. Our ballads speak of adventures known to Romaic, Danish, and Italian peasants ; but in listening to them we hear thie drawl of the dull rustic, and catch the snivelling drone of the provincial morairstr~ Unlike the Provengal, or Romaic, or Lowland Scotch ballads, the English rema...ins are too often fiat, garrulous, spiritless, and didactic. They lack the picturesqueness, the simplicity, the felicitous choice of expression, the fife, the~ speed' of the best European volks-lieder.
The probable reason of this flatness and languor will be stated presently ; in the meantime we must note that the ballads of the Lowland Scotch, recovered from oral tradition, have the fire which we miss in English popular poems. It is for this reason that many of our selected ballads are chosen from the northern Border.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Thomas Humphry Ward to read onlineMoreLess
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