Word: hustvedt
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Ballad Books and Ballad Men" is the title of 327 page work of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. The author puts forth in this volume a survey of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child '46, who was the predecessor of G.L. Kittredge '82 as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child. Appendixes present a large store of illuminating documents, hitherto unpublished, from the correspondence of Child and the Danish editor Grunting...
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