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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.) 2 2 Browse Search
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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, The two sisters, The two Brothers, The House Carpenter, Young Beichan, The wife of Usher's well, and Lord Randal—who appears as Johnny Randall in Colorado, Jimmy Randall in Illinois, Jimmy Ransing in Indiana, Johnny Ramble in Ohio, and Jimmy Randolph in North Carolina. Sentimental ballads are well represented, among these emigrants from the Old World, and ballads of romantic tragedy and adventure. A riddle ballad remains, The Cambric shirt, deriving from The Elfin knight, and in Little Harry Hughes, from the Old World Sir Hugh, a relic of the medieval superstitions concerning the Jews; and there are some sea narratives. Heroic ballads, or local or border ballads, have not found diffusion in the New World. These traditional pieces find their best chance for survival in outlying, isolated, or secluded regions, those least invaded by modem songs or song modes. Sometimes city dwellers remember and hand them on; but for the most part they are best sought for in mountain district
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.), Index (search)
ott's magazine, 189, 314 List, 431 Litchfield Academy, 69 Literary diary (Stiles), 447 n. Literary friends and acquaintance, 77, 83 Literary Industries, 196 Literary Prospects of the South, 551 n. Literature and life (Howells), 83 Literature and life (Whipple), 126 Little, James A., 150 Little Book of profitable tales, a, 28 Little Book of Western verse, a, 28 Little Breeches, 53 Little Brown Jug, 516 Little citizens, 420 Little folk lyrics, 52 Little Harry Hughes, 507 Little Johnny Jones, 289 Little Lord Fauntleroy, 16, 290 Little Old log cabin in the Lane, the, 514 Little Old Sod Shanty on My claim, the, 514 Little Peach of Emerald hue, the, 28 Litwisch Staedtel, 605 Lives of the Caesars, 6 Livingston, Robert, 448 Livingstone, Henry, 163, 334 Lloyd, Henry D., 358 Locke, Edward, 282 Locke, John, 227, 228, 263 Locke Amsden, or the schoolmaster, 416 Lockhart, 96 Lockwood, Lieut., 169 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 302, 354,