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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.) 4 0 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)
st.” Robbin, Bobbin, Richard, and John, or The Wren Shooting is a St. Stephen's Day song, from the Isle of Man. Other pieces connected with British folk-song, some of them lingering only as songs for children, are Father Grumble, or Old Grumbly, etc., who thinks he can do more work in a day than his wife can do in three, The children in the Wood, Billy boy, The Frog and the Mouse, and many nursery rhymes. Of modem importation and widely current because used as a party song is the Irish William Reilly or The Coolen Bawn. Ritual songs hardly occur in the United States; for instance Harvest Home songs, carols, springtime and Mayday songs. Ritual observances have not been transplanted. Aside from the historical pieces enumerated earlier, there are now many short narrative pieces, orally preserved, and apparently authorless, which may fairly be called indigenous ballads. Already, they are marked, to an instructive degree, by fluctuation of text, variant versions, and local modificat
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)
marry? 294 Whymper, Edward, 11 Widowers' houses, 286 Wiener, Leo, 602 Wife, the, 276 Wife of Usher's well, the, 507 Wigglesworth, Michael, 391 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Wilde, Percival, 297 Wilding flower, 63 Wilkes, Capt., Charles, 135, 136, 140 Wilkes, George, 146 Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E., 274, 291, 309 Wilkinson, W. C., 212 Willard, Emma H., 411, 415 William II (of Germany), 11 William and Mary, 338, 386, 392, 402, 417, 447, 478 William James, 249 n. William Reilly, 511 Williams, Jesse Lynch, 294 Williams, Miss, 541 Williams, S. Wells, 145 Williams College, 413, 435, 467 Williamson, Hugh, 179 Willie and Mary, 511 Willis, N. P., 35, 40, 109-10, 549 Willkomm, 579 Willoughby, W. W., 361 Willow tree, the, 292 Will Widder Buwele Sei, 585 Wilson, Francis, 280 Wilson, Woodrow, 114, 129, 306, 361, 365, 417 Winchevsky, Morris, 603 Winds of Doctrine, 258 n., 260 n., 261 n. Wings of the Dove, the, 98, 101 Winsor, Justin, 18