Loomis House Press

This long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's classic collection, Songs the Whalemen Sang, assembles more than 200 songs from whalemen's journals, log books, and popular music of the whaling era: whal...

"The Wild West Show," best known in its modern form as a bawdy rugby song, seems at first glance little more than a loose collection of scatological verses linked together by an almost unrelated choru...

The English ballad "The Gest of Robyn Hood" is the single most important source for the Robin Hood legend. This study uses the latest resources and techniques to reconstruct the text and interpret its...

The well-known folk song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" is widely regarded as a traditional Irish anti-war song which was later rewritten as the pro-war "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Jonathan Lighter...

Which came first, the ballad or the romance? Many famous tales exist in both early folk ballads and in written medieval romances. Scholars for more than a century have debated the nature of the litera...

A cura di David Atkinson a cura di Steve Roud

Basilisks and bezoars, mandrakes and manticores: the world of Harry Potter is rich with fantastical creatures and magical objects. Some are from the imagination of J. K. Rowling, but many more are dra...

The bawdy exploits of “Barnacle Bill the Sailor” are normally relegated to late-night college parties, sports celebrations, and military clubs, but the crusty seaman has antecedents in bal...