Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs Of the Peasantry of England

LibriVox recording of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs Of the Peasantry of England by Various. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of view, especial value as a faithful record of the feeling, usages, and modes of life of the rural population,—had been almost wholly passed over amongst the antiquarian revivals which constitute one of the distinguishing features of the present age