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Excerpt from The Ballad in Literature
Still the minute study of other forms of early verse, and the very comprehensive knowledge we now possess of the literary characteristics and themes of the surviving ballad versions of different nations, have tended to dissipate various erroneous pre conceptions, and, on several important points, have supplied the means of more than plausible conjecture and comparison and criticism may still further help to clear up difficulties, and bring about a more general agreement of opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
