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Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads. Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"Child's collection was not the first of its kind; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) onwards. [4]
The cast includes Little John, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Covered are Robin's travels, his robberies, his relations with the king and his betrayal and death. 118. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne. Little John and Robin argue, and John leaves in a huff, only to be captured by the Sheriff.
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry.
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Sir Patrick Spens remains one of the most anthologized of British popular ballads, partly because it exemplifies the traditional ballad form. The strength of this ballad, its emotional force, lies in its unadorned narrative which progresses rapidly to a tragic end that has been foreshadowed almost from the beginning.
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. "Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number ...
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men or The Lady Turned Serving-Man (Child 106, [1] Roud 199) is a traditional English language folk song and murder ballad. Child considered it as closely related to the ballad "The Lament of the Border Widow" or "The Border Widow's Lament". [2] "Unusually, it is possible to give a precise date and authorship to ...
List of the Child Ballads. Little John a Begging. Lizie Lindsay. Lizie Wan. The Lochmaben Harper. Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet. Lord Lovel. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward.