Francis James Child (1825–1896)
Forfatter af The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volumes 1 through 5
Om forfatteren
American scholar, folklorist, and collector of ballads, Francis Child was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, he studied for a time in Europe and then returned to the United States to teach at Harvard, eventually becoming professor of vis mere English there. Motivated by an interest in folklore, Child put together at the Harvard Library one of the largest folklore collections in existence at the time. Though a scholar of the British poets, notably Edmund Spenser and Geoffrey Chaucer , Child is best known for his systematic study, collecting, and cataloging of folk ballads, particularly those of Scotland and England. He is noted for studying manuscript rather than printed versions of old ballads from these countries although he studied and investigated ballads and stories in other languages that were related to the Scottish and English ballads. Child's first important work was Four Old Plays (1848). A subsequent eight-volume collection called English and Scottish Ballads (1857-1858) eventually grew into his final and most ambitious collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898). The work contains 305 ballads, many of which come from manuscript sources, and with all known versions of each ballad. It remains the most authoritative work on old English and Scottish ballads and folk songs. Child's teaching and collecting provided an important impetus for other scholars to gather ballads in the United States and elsewhere. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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of Oral Literature, Harvard University.
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Værker af Francis James Child
True Thomas {ballad} — Collector — 3 eksemplarer
Four Old Plays 3 eksemplarer
The Three Ravens {ballad} — Collector — 3 eksemplarer
Edward, Edward {ballad} — Collector — 3 eksemplarer
Sir Patrick Spens {ballad} — Collector — 2 eksemplarer
Lord Randall {ballad} — Collector — 2 eksemplarer
Barbara Allen {ballad} — Collector — 2 eksemplarer
The debate of the body and the soul, 1 eksemplar
May Colvin, or The Western Tragedy {ballad} — Collector — 1 eksemplar
Get Up and Bar the Door [ballad] — Collector — 1 eksemplar
Johnny Armstrong [ballad] — Collector — 1 eksemplar
Robin Hood and the Tanner {ballad} — Collector — 1 eksemplar
Observations on the language of Chaucer 1 eksemplar
Kemp Owyne [poem] — Collector — 1 eksemplar
Child's Ballads - Volume I 1 eksemplar
Child's Ballads - Volume II 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Cambridge Edition of the Poets) (1904) — Redaktør — 50 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1825-02-01
- Dødsdag
- 1896-09-11
- Begravelsessted
- Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødssted
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bopæl
- Berlin, Germany
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Harvard University
English High School, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Grammar School, Boston, Massachusetts - Erhverv
- professor (rhetoric)
editor
professor (English literature)
professor (oratory)
philologist
folklorist - Relationer
- Kittredge, George Lyman (son-in-law)
- Organisationer
- Harvard University
- Kort biografi
- Francis James Child was a Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. In 1876 he became Harvard's first Professor of English.
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