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A Book of Old English Ballads

by George Wharton Edwards

In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which is still, it is to be feared, unfamiliar to a large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment and delight.

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English

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1896

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George Wharton Edwards was an American impressionist painter and illustrator, and the author of several books of travel and historical subjects. Edwards was born in Fair Haven, Connecticut in March 18...

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