The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
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The Cavalier Ballads of England, like the Jacobite Ballads of
England and Scotland at a later period, are mines of wealth for the
student of the history and social manners of our ancestors. The
rude but often beautiful political lyrics of the early days of the
Stuarts were far more interesting and important to the people who
heard or repeated them, than any similar compositions can be in our
time. When the printing press was the mere vehicle of polemics for
the educated minority, and when the daily journal was neither a
luxury of the poor, a necessity of the rich, nor an appreciable
power in the formation and guidance of public opinion, the song and
the ballad appealed to the passion, ...More >
England and Scotland at a later period, are mines of wealth for the
student of the history and social manners of our ancestors. The
rude but often beautiful political lyrics of the early days of the
Stuarts were far more interesting and important to the people who
heard or repeated them, than any similar compositions can be in our
time. When the printing press was the mere vehicle of polemics for
the educated minority, and when the daily journal was neither a
luxury of the poor, a necessity of the rich, nor an appreciable
power in the formation and guidance of public opinion, the song and
the ballad appealed to the passion, ...More >
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