# Book of Old English Ballads

An audiobook by George Wharton Edwards, read by LibriVox volunteers (2 h 34 min, English).

In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which is still, it is to be feared, unfamiliar to a large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment and delight. (Summary from introduction)

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