The Oxford Book of Ballads

The famous Oxford Book of Ballads is a monumental anthology of poetry in 4 volumes, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Contents: Thomas the Rhymer Tam Lin Sir Cawline Sir Aldingar Cospatrick Willy's Lady The Queen of Elfland's Nourice Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight The Riddling Knight May Colvin The Wee Wee Man Alison Gross Kemp Owyne The Laily Worm King Orfeo King Henry The Boy and the Mantle King Arthur and King Cornwall The Marriage of Sir Gawain Bonnie Annie Brown Robyn's Confession The Cruel Mother Binnorie The Broomfield Hill Earl Mar's Daughter Proud Lady Margaret Clerk Saunders The Daemon Lover Clerk Colven Young Hunting The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie The Wife of Usher's Well A Lyke-Wake Dirge The Unquiet Grave BOOK II: Hynd Horn Hynd Etin Erlinton Earl Brand The Douglas Tragedy Glasgerion King Estmere Fair Annie The Lass of Lochroyan Young Bekie Young Beichan Childe Waters Childe Maurice Brown Adam Jellon Grame Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet Fair Janet Old Robin of Portingale Lord Thomas and Fair Annet Rose the Red and White Lily Leesome Brand Babylon Prince Robert Young Andrew The Gay Goshawk Willie's Lyke-Wake Fair Margaret and Sweet William The Twa Brothers The Cruel Brother Edward, Edward Lord Randal The Twa Corbies The Three Ravens BOOK III: The Nut-Brown Maid Fause Foodrage The Fair Flower of Northumberland Young John Lady Maisry Bonny Bee Ho'm Sir Patrick Spens The Lord of Lorn Edom o' Gordon Lamkin Hugh of Lincoln The Heir of Linne Fair Mary of Wallington Young Waters The Queen's Marie The Outlaw Murray Glenlogie Lady Elspat Jamie Douglas Katharine Johnstone Johnie Armstrong Clyde Water Young Benjie Annan Water Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow The Duke of Gordon's Daughter The Bonny Earl of Murray Bonny George Campbell BOOK IV: Judas St. Stephen and King Herod The Maid and the Palmer The Falcon The Cherry-Tree Carol The Carnal and the Crane Jolly Wat I Saw Three Ships The Twelve Good Joys The Angel Gabriel The Three Kings The Innocents Dives and Lazarus The Holy Well The Seven Virgins...

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, anthology The Oxford Book of Ballads and for his literary criticism.