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Scottish tragic ballads /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : J. Nichols, 1781.Description: xxxvii, 130 p. : ill. ; 18 cmSubject(s):
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Edited by John Pinkerton, who in his "Ancient Scotish poems, never before in print ... 1786" (v.1, p.cxxviii-cxxxi) admitted the authorship of the second part of Hardyknute and several of the other poems.

Subsequently published in 2 v., with additions, under title: Select Scotish ballads, 1783.

"Dissertations on the oral tradition of poetry, and on the tragic ballad": p.[vii]-xxxvii.

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