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+The Early Ballads.+

Ballads of Robin Hood.

Ballads of the Scottish Border.

Modern Ballads.

PARALLEL STUDIES

Read histories and stories of the mediæval times.

Refer to Percy’s _Reliques_; Aytoun’s _Scottish Ballads_; Scott’s _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_.

+Songs of Patriotism.+

Read and study the best-known patriotic poems in the language.

Study the historical events, or other circumstances which led to the production of these poems.