Description
This collection points to take within a fair range of song compilations of the persons who must equally exemplify the selection, the evocative joy, the vivid command, and the real harmonious sense of the stanzas of a poem which is still, it is to be terrified, unversed to a big count of those to whom it would bring revival and enjoyment. A Book of Old English Ballads consists of: Chevy Chace; King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid; King Leir and his Three Daughters; Fair Rosamond; Phillida and Corydon; Fair Margaret and Sweet William; Annan Water; The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington; Barbara Allen’s Cruelty; The Douglas Tragedy; Young Waters; Flodden Field; Helen of Kirkconnell; Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale; Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne; Robin Hood’s Death and Burial; The Twa Corbies; Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny; The Nut-brown Maid; The Fause Lover; The Mermaid; The Battle of Otterburn; The Lament of the Border Widow; The Banks o’ Yarrow; Hugh of Lincoln; and Sir Patrick Spens. George Wharton Edwards was a U. S. impressionist painter and illustrator, and the writer of a number of writings of travel and ancient subject matters. George enrolled at Antwerp and Paris. He joined the Cos Cob Art Colony. He was art director of Collier’s magazine. He was manager of the art department of the American Bank Note Company. He was both an author and illustrator for Harper’s Magazine. He was awarded with many prizes at an art exhibition in Boston, and then received honors from different places in the United States and Countries in Europe, such as The Order of the King of Belgium, The Order L’Académie française d’Art, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, Chevalier of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, and Chevalier of the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy.
Product ID: 9781776725533
Sku: Y5-AUDF-8YAK
