{"id":14281,"date":"2013-09-10T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2013-09-10T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T01:44:46","slug":"a-book-of-old-english-ballads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/10\/a-book-of-old-english-ballads\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book of Old English Ballads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More illustration from George Wharton Edwards (1859\u20131950) with a collection of ballads from 1910. These being for the American market, the emphasis is on the picturesque England of kings and queens, duelling knights, and Robin Hood. A couple of exceptions, such as <em>The Twa Corbies<\/em>, point to the darker world of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Child_Ballads\" target=\"_blank\">Child Ballads<\/a> where love and virtue aren&#8217;t always rewarded, and unnatural death is often the order of the day. Browse <em>A Book of Old English Ballads<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/bookofoldenglish00edwa#page\/n5\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia700400.us.archive.org\/0\/items\/bookofoldenglish00edwa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ballads10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ballads10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More illustration from George Wharton Edwards (1859\u20131950) with a collection of ballads from 1910. These being for the American market, the emphasis is on the picturesque England of kings and queens, duelling knights, and Robin Hood. A couple of exceptions, such as The Twa Corbies, point to the darker world of the Child Ballads where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/10\/a-book-of-old-english-ballads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Book of Old English Ballads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[5168],"class_list":["post-14281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-george-wharton-edwards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}