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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
el. Its sales went to the millions. Over five hundred thousand Englishwomen signed an address of thanks to the author; Scotland raised a thousand pounds by a penny offering among its poorest people to help free the slaves; in France and Germany thers bringing messages from the world of nature to the world of men—and beside John Muir (1838– 1914), who, though born in Scotland, was thoroughly naturalized in America, as inventive as any Yankee, and a passionate foster-son of the western mountainsansmitted from generation to generation, and from one region or land to another. The mediaeval ballads of England and Scotland have for their matter the adventures of lord or lady, the incidents of the hunt, clan feuds, the love affairs of the nobn, Jesse James. It is these which form the truer analogues of the oral legendary and romantic song-tales of England and Scotland. Still another type of orally preserved verse appears in ring games, on the grass or in the parlour, Play-party songs