The Gambit Book of Popular Verse - Hardcover

Dust jacket notes: "The Gambit Book of Popular Verse is a comprehensive collection of anonymous 'folk' poetry, selected and edited by the distinguished English poet and critic Geoffrey Grigson. The verses range in time from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, in space from the British Isles - across North America - to Australia, and in tone from the outrageously bawdy to the piously reverential. Ballads, broadsides, children's street chants, spirituals, political lampoons, riddles and nonsense rhymes all find a place in this generous but knowingly winnowed anthology. Notes at the back of the volume provide a background history for many of the verses, and there is a complete bibliography listing the source of each selection."