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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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estern states, and from the Southern mountains. Some of the most popular of these traditional pieces, their popularity varying in varying regions, are Barbara Allen's cruelty, which leads in geographical distribution and in number of variants, Lord Lovel, The two sisters, The two Brothers, The House Carpenter, Young Beichan, The wife of Usher's well, and Lord Randal—who appears as Johnny Randall in Colorado, Jimmy Randall in Illinois, Jimmy Ransing in Indiana, Johnny Ramble in Ohio, and Jimmy Randolph in North Carolina. Sentimental ballads are well represented, among these emigrants from the Old World, and ballads of romantic tragedy and adventure. A riddle ballad remains, The Cambric shirt, deriving from The Elfin knight, and in Little Harry Hughes, from the Old World Sir Hugh, a relic of the medieval superstitions concerning the Jews; and there are some sea narratives. Heroic ballads, or local or border ballads, have not found diffusion in the New World. These traditional piec