The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . ect as possibly he can;while in the third volume he actually apologizes for theludicrous manner in which he wrote the other two prefaces. As we have stated, the revival in ballad interestdid not begin until the second half of the century, and wewould,the psettdo-olassicists to consider tne ballad literatureas not worthy of any notice; or else, if interesting, to findtraces in them of classicism. Popes comment on the an-tiquarian research has been spoken of. In his Memoirs ofP. if* Clerk of this Parish,^ he makes the clerk say: Evenwhen I was a
The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . ect as possibly he can;while in the third volume he actually apologizes for theludicrous manner in which he wrote the other two prefaces. As we have stated, the revival in ballad interestdid not begin until the second half of the century, and wewould,the psettdo-olassicists to consider tne ballad literatureas not worthy of any notice; or else, if interesting, to findtraces in them of classicism. Popes comment on the an-tiquarian research has been spoken of. In his Memoirs ofP. if* Clerk of this Parish,^ he makes the clerk say: Evenwhen I was at school, my mistress did ever extol me abovethe rest or the youth, in that 1 had a laudable voice. Andit was furthermore observed, that I took a kindly affectionunto that black letter in which our Bibles are , often did I exercise myself in singing godly ballads, such as The Lady and i;eath. The Children in the Wood, and —0000— Gummere: The Beginnings of Poetry. 2. Popes Works. Edwin and Courthope. London, 1886. Vol. Z., p. 436. J. -26- Chevy Chase; and not, like other children, in lewd andtrivial ditties. The entire memoir is satirical in tone,and we can read into it the pharasaical tone of the clerk,and Popes lack of regard for the clerks godly ballads* The Kambler for liovemher, 1751, gives anaccount of a club of antiquaries, and shows, on the part ofJohnson, a similar contempt for antiquarian research thatwas directed toward other than classicial eources. Cantilenusturned all his thoughts upon old ballads, for he consideredthem as the genuine records of the nationy,! taste. Heoffered to show me a copy of The Children in the Wood, whichhe firmly believed to be of the first edition, and by thehelp or which, the text might be freed from several corruptions,if this age of barbarity had any claim on such favours fromhim. While Addison was classical in his attitude towardballads, in thinking that he could trace resemblances tothe writers of antic^uity, he recogniz
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