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folk poetry history and criticism

Tikopia Songs

By Raymond William Firth,Mervyn McLean

World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes

By Arthur Thomas Hatto,John Smith,Jane Lutman,Marianne Sz Bakró-Nagy,Daniel Prior

Voicing the moment

By Samuel G. Armistead,Joseba Zulaika

Xhosa Poets and Poetry

By Jeff Opland

English folk poetry, structure and meaning

By Roger deV Renwick

Oral poetry

By Ruth H. Finnegan

The Night Casey Was Born

By John Evangelist Walsh

Passion, poverty and travel

By W. L. Idema

Geistliche Lieder der Altgläubigen in Russland

By Tatiana Filosofova

Cradle and all

By Lucy Rollin

Some Peasant Poets

By Giovanni Kezich

Sing without shame

By K. David Jackson

Pens, Swords, And the Springs of Art

By Nadia G. Yaqub

Folk-Songs of the Southern United States

By Josiah H. Combs,D. K. Wilgus

Rediscovering Homer

By Andrew Dalby

Verbal arts in Philippine Indigenous communities

By Herminia Meñez Coben

The tapestry of popular songs in 16th- and 17th-century China

By Kathryn A. Lowry

The Graying of the Raven

By Aida Bania

Miorita

By Ernest H. Jr. Latham

Xhosa poets and poetry

By Jeff Opland

Oral heroic poetry of the Arondizuogu Igbos of Nigeria

By Augustine Okereke

Banndi Fulbe

By Boubacar Hama Beïdi

Morning dew and roses

By Barre Toelken

Lettische Syntax

By Alfrēds Gāters