Arts and Humanities Commons^™

A Recent Theory Of Ballad-Making, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

PROFESSOR GORDON HALL GEROULD'S article entitled "The Making of Ballads"' is an attractive essay, written in the fluent and polished manner that we are accustomed to expect from this scholar. It has charm of style, and its positions, taken as a whole, may be termed accepted positions. Because of its literary quality, because it brings together in one paper what has hithert been stressed in scattered places, and because of its appreciation of the poetical quality of those English and Scottish ballads sough out by the notable collectors of the earlier nineteenth century and made available in the volumes of …