# The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship

Author: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35602

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## Summary

Percy's _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_, 1765; David Herd's _Scottish Songs_, 1769; Scott's _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, 1802; and Jamieson's _Popular Ballads and Songs_, 1806, have been chiefly the means of making us acquainted with what is believed to be the ancient traditionary ballad literature of Scotland; and this literature, from its intrinsic merits, has attained a very great fame. I advert particularly to what are usually called the Romantic Ballads, a class of compositions felt to contain striking beauties, almost peculiar to themselves, and consequently held as implying extraordinary poetical attributes in former generations of the people of this country. There hav...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romantic-scottish-ballads-their-epoch-and-authorship-35602/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romantic-scottish-ballads-their-epoch-and-authorship-35602/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romantic-scottish-ballads-their-epoch-and-authorship-35602/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romantic-scottish-ballads-their-epoch-and-authorship-35602/chapters/4/index.md)