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Francis James Child: Some Thoughts While Shaving, Edward D. Ives
Francis James Child: Some Thoughts While Shaving, Edward D. Ives
Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers
What can I possibly say that can add to the huge body of commentary on this man, the hochgecelebrated Francis James Child? Not much, I'm afraid. He has all but been canonized by some, demonized by others. H singlehandedly saved the ballad from oblivion; he is the source of our major ballad-study problems. He had an instinct that told him what was a ballad, what was not; he had no theoretical underpinning for his choices. His great collection is lhe beginning of all our wisdom; his great collection rides us like the Old Man of the Mountains, weighing us down, …
"How Got The Apples In?" Individual Creativity And Ballad Tradition, Edward D. Ives
"How Got The Apples In?" Individual Creativity And Ballad Tradition, Edward D. Ives
Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers
Way back in the beginning of things, almost a hundred years ago, Francis Barton Gummere not only wrote as good a description of the ballad as we've got, he also asked a crucial if rather enigmatic question, and that question-probably partly because it was enigmatic to the point of being gnomic-caught my attention when I first read it almost half a century after it had been written: "How got the apples in?" It turns out he was quoting a humorous poem by John Wolcott (aka "Peter Pindar") in which King James, looking at an old woman's dumplings, wondered "How the …