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CONTENTS
PREFACE vii
I THE BEGINNING OF POETRY 1
I "Communal" Authorship and Ownership 4
II Individual Authorship and Ownership 13
III The " Ballad" as the Earliest Poetic Form 27
II THE MEDIAEVAL BALLAD AND THE DANCE 36
I The Name "Ballad" 39
II Dance Songs Proper 47
III Narrative Songs and the Dance 67
III BALLADS AND THE ILLITERATE 87
I Sources of Recovery 89
II Audiences and Authorship as Mirrored in the
Ballads 		95
III The Ballads and Literature 106
IV THE BALLAD STYLE 120
I Incremental Repetition and Other Ballad Man-
nerisms 		121
II Dialogue and Situation Ballads and Theories of
Development 		139
III The "Uniformity" of the Ballad Style 146
IV Improvisation and Folk-Song 153
V THE ENGLISH BALLADS AND THE CHURCH 162
I The Earliest Ballad Texts 163
II Some Ballad Affiliations 171
III Ballads and Clericals 183

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Publication Information: Book Title: Poetic Origins and the Ballad. Contributors: Louise Pound - author. Publisher: The Macmillan Company. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1921. Page Number: ix.
    
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