The Ballad And The Plough
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The Ballad And The Plough
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Author : David Kerr Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Ballad And The Plough written by David Kerr Cameron and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Travel categories.
The era of the great farms of Scotland is over now. They flourished for nearly eighty years from the mid 19th century, and those years are renowned for the strength of their characters and the legendary status of their stories. Probably the finest and richest aspect of bothy life was the ballad. Often sentimental, sometimes simplistic, they nevertheless give unrivalled detail about a vanished way of life and work. Quoting generously from the ballads, David Kerr Cameron has written a book rich in anecdote and insight. The working day was hard and long, and mealtimes consisted mainly of porridge and potatoes. Yet laughter and generosity of spirit were commonplace. For these communities, horses were as important as people, and tens of thousands of noble Clydesdales helped to cultivate the land. Ploughmen, dairymaids, bailiffs and shepherds all appear in the pages of this unique testament to the Scottish countryside. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.
The Ballad And The Plough
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Author : David K. Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Release Date : 1987-07-01
The Ballad And The Plough written by David K. Cameron and has been published by Victor Gollancz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-07-01 with History categories.
The Ballad And The Folk Pbdirect
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Author : David Buchan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
The Ballad And The Folk Pbdirect written by David Buchan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Social Science categories.
The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.
God Speed The Plough
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Author : Andrew McRae
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-12
God Speed The Plough written by Andrew McRae and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-12 with History categories.
An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.
A Book Of Roxburghe Ballads
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Author : John Payne Collier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
A Book Of Roxburghe Ballads written by John Payne Collier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Ballads, English categories.
Publications Of The Ballad Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Publications Of The Ballad Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede About 1394 A D
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Author : Walter William Skeat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede About 1394 A D written by Walter William Skeat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede Transcr And Ed To Which Is Appended God Spede The Plough By W W Skeat
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Author : Piers Plowman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede Transcr And Ed To Which Is Appended God Spede The Plough By W W Skeat written by Piers Plowman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede About 1394 A D To Which Is Appended God Spede The Plough About 1500 A D By Walter W Skeat
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Author : Walter W. Skeat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
Pierce The Ploughmans Crede About 1394 A D To Which Is Appended God Spede The Plough About 1500 A D By Walter W Skeat written by Walter W. Skeat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.
Ancient Poems Ballads And Songs Of The Peasantry Of England
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Author : Robert Bell
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Ancient Poems Ballads And Songs Of The Peasantry Of England written by Robert Bell and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Poetry categories.
In 1846, the Percy Society issued to its members a volume entitled Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, edited by Mr. James Henry Dixon. The sources drawn upon by Mr. Dixon are intimated in the following extract from his preface:— He who, in travelling through the rural districts of England, has made the road-side inn his resting-place, who has visited the lowly dwellings of the villagers and yeomanry, and been present at their feasts and festivals, must have observed that there are certain old poems, ballads, and songs, which are favourites with the masses, and have been said and sung from generation to generation. This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of view, especial value as a faithful record of the feeling, usages, and modes of life of the rural population,—had been almost wholly passed over amongst the antiquarian revivals which constitute one of the distinguishing features of the present age. While attention was successfully drawn to other forms of our early poetry, this peasant minstrelsy was scarcely touched, and might be considered unexplored ground. There was great difficulty in collecting materials which lay scattered so widely, and which could be procured in their genuine simplicity only from the people amongst whom they originated, and with whom they are as ‘familiar as household words.’ It was even still more difficult to find an editor who combined genial literary taste with the local knowledge of character, customs, and dialect, indispensable to the collation of such reliques; and thus, although their national interest was universally recognised, they were silently permitted to fall into comparative oblivion. To supply this manifest desideratum, Mr. Dixon compiled his volume for the Percy Society; and its pages, embracing only a selection from the rich stores he had gathered, abundantly exemplified that gentleman’s remarkable qualifications for the labour he had undertaken. After stating in his preface that contributions from various quarters had accumulated so largely on his hands as to compel him to omit many pieces he was desirous of preserving.