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Thread #69651   Message #1183643
Posted By: masato sakurai
12-May-04 - 06:53 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Penguin Books
Subject: RE: Folklore: Penguin Books
The Penguin Book of Folk Ballads of the English-speaking World is a paperback edition of The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-speaking World, edited by Albert B. Friedman (1956). Border Ballads [not The Penguin Book of ...] is mostly a selection from Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Others include The Common Muse: An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Peotry 15th-20th Century (1957; collection of broadside ballads), and The Penguin Book of Narrative Verse (1960; collection of non-traditional literary ballads).