Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 19

Download or read book Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 19 written by Percy Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 19: And Popular Literature of the Middle Ages IT was my original intention to have appended the songs from the -mayoralty pageants of London, contained in this volume, to the volume on Lord Mayors Pageants published by the Percy Society in 1843-4, so that this may be considered as the third and concluding part of the collections on that subject. I have however not restricted myself now, as I should have done before, to those only to be found in pageants expressly devoted to London's chief magistrate, but have added several from pageants designed to entertain royalty when it honoured the city with its presence. It must be allowed that many of these songs possess but little poetical merit; they are chiefly curious as specimens of the taste and feeling of the day; but they derive an historic interest from the great occasions in the celebration of which they were composed. In many instances, too, they vividly picture forth, in coarse and homely phrase enough, the opinions, political and religious, held in the capital of the kingdom. In some instances the freedom of expression is rather surprising; but this also is characteristic of the times. Thus. 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.