The Ballad in Literature
The Ballad in Literature
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Many of the ballads of Denmark have been preserved in the tradition of ladies ; and so have a few of the old songs and some of the old ballads of Scotland ; and while, in this tradition, they are certainly superior as literature, they probably accord more with the original than when they have passed through the mouths of unlearned people. True, unlearned people have limited powers of inven- tion ; unlearned tradition is also sometimes tenacious of the general gist of the story, for it is the st...ory that specially appeals to it ; and there are some remarkable instances of stanzas being apparently preserved, during many generations, in one tradition — whether whoUj'^ unlearned or not — which have been lost in another. But unlearned tradition ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP 71 evidently indulges in inventions of a sort. Generally, also, it is very careless as to expression and rhyme, or rather it tends to make the ballad " popular, " in the sense of being mean and common and rude in style, and " impersonal, " destitute of the traces of individual authorship, for the simple reason that it has been gradually remoulded by the processes of instinctively stupid interference with the original text, by the ignorant touches of those by whom it has during many generations been preserved, by their inevitable preference for their own colloquial and, in a literary sense, obtuse method of expression, and the generally prosy and jejune, and often con- fused character of their notions and sentiments.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Many of the ballads of Denmark have been preserved in the tradition of ladies ; and so have a few of the old songs and some of the old ballads of Scotland ; and while, in this tradition, they are certainly superior as literature, they probably accord more with the original than when they have passed through the mouths of unlearned people. True, unlearned people have limited powers of inven- tion ; unlearned tradition is also sometimes tenacious of the general gist of the story, for it is the st...ory that specially appeals to it ; and there are some remarkable instances of stanzas being apparently preserved, during many generations, in one tradition — whether whoUj'^ unlearned or not — which have been lost in another. But unlearned tradition ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP 71 evidently indulges in inventions of a sort. Generally, also, it is very careless as to expression and rhyme, or rather it tends to make the ballad " popular, " in the sense of being mean and common and rude in style, and " impersonal, " destitute of the traces of individual authorship, for the simple reason that it has been gradually remoulded by the processes of instinctively stupid interference with the original text, by the ignorant touches of those by whom it has during many generations been preserved, by their inevitable preference for their own colloquial and, in a literary sense, obtuse method of expression, and the generally prosy and jejune, and often con- fused character of their notions and sentiments.
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