The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire


Printed:	2012	Author:	Christopher James Davison Ingledew
Publisher:	Forgotten Books	ISBN:
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Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications (Classic Reprint)
Paperback: 338 pages

Publisher's blurb:
Ballads and Songs of my native county, and I trust the publication may not be deemed an unacceptable offering. In a polished age like the present, I am sensible that many of the productions of our county bards will require great allowances to be made for them. Yet have they, for the most part, a pleasing simplicity, and artless grace, which, in the opinion of such writers as A ddison, Dryden, Percy,and others,liave been thought to compensate for the want of higher beauties; and, in the words of the latter, If they do not dazzle the imagination, they are frequently found to interest the heart. Wherever I have had an opportunity, I have collated my copies with the earliest editions, retaining in the notes, in many places, the different readings, the text in modern editions being materially changed and frequently deteriorated.

Amazon Review
This is a collection of ballads from 1200 onwards to 1860 when this book was first issued. Not great poetry, but this gives a fascinating insight into a small area of North Yorkshire and the side bars are worth the price of the book if only for enlightening us on the local history and charactors.