Talk:Francis Barton Gummere

New section: Child Ballads

Hi, y'all! Gummere did a lot more in ballads than is indicated by the single sentence in "Later academic career". He assisted F J Child in compiling his Child ballads, and wrote 2 books (Old English Ballads and The Popular Ballad) as a result. Among his achievements was a classification scheme of the ballads. He was one of a group of students who studied ballads at Harvard under Child & Kittredge. 2 of these students, Walter Morris Hart & William Hall Clawson, later expanded on Gummere's classification scheme. His theory of communal composition of ballads, although very influential in his day, was eventually superceded.

I need to have a place to point my readers of A Gest of Robyn Hode (ballad) to Gummere's ballad classification scheme. It's too detailed for my article, as well as being too detailed for the main article ballad, and it doesn't fit well in Child ballads either. So the next best place seems to be here, as those who are interested in ballad classification or Gummere would probably want to know about Gummere's work on Child Ballads. I'll be making the move shortly. Ta-ta for now! --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 12:22, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

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Copied details of Gummere's ballad classification to this section. Cleaning up. --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)