Folklore in American LiteratureJohn Theodore Flanagan, Arthur Palmer Hudson Illustrates by representative selections of prose and poetry the artistic use of folklore by American authors. |
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... story of a bet and by Thorpe's hunting fantasy . One of the oldest types of folk literature is the ballad , the traditional story told in song . A great many of the English and Scottish popular ballads collected by Francis J. Child and ...
... story of a bet and by Thorpe's hunting fantasy . One of the oldest types of folk literature is the ballad , the traditional story told in song . A great many of the English and Scottish popular ballads collected by Francis J. Child and ...
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... story - teller must not take them too seriously . " But at least from the time of Daniel Defoe the ghost story has had a place in literature , and the Head- less Horseman and Peter Rugg are valuable American contribu- tions to the ...
... story - teller must not take them too seriously . " But at least from the time of Daniel Defoe the ghost story has had a place in literature , and the Head- less Horseman and Peter Rugg are valuable American contribu- tions to the ...
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... stories . Sam often sat in the kitchen as he yarned away , and two boys and their family provided the audience . " The Ghost in the Mill " is the initial story in the collection called Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories ( 1872 ) ...
... stories . Sam often sat in the kitchen as he yarned away , and two boys and their family provided the audience . " The Ghost in the Mill " is the initial story in the collection called Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories ( 1872 ) ...
Contents
Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker | 25 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe The Ghost in the Mill | 57 |
Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 64 0 | 83 |
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