The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection
The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -
Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the