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Not from me, but it’s not my text. Lloyd died in 1986 so his work is still in copyright, but I’m sure you’d be all right if you stick to small phrases or re-cast what interests you as “ideas”. It’s from his book Folk Song in England (1967, 1975) Peter On 10 Jul 2018, at 12:49 pm, Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Thanks, Peter. Any objections if I use ideas from the AL Lloyd quote in a poem - the qualities of words as plunder? Reuben On 10 July 2018 at 12:53, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: On 9 Jul 2018, at 3:24 am, Luke <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: What are the border ballads? I'm uh asking for a friend Traditional sung narrative poems collected (initially) in the region of the border between Scotland and England. "The bare rolling stretch of country from the North Tyne and Cheviots to the Scottish southern uplands was for a long time the territory of men who spoke English but had the outlook of Afghan tribesmen; they prized a poem almost as much as plunder, and produced such an impressive assembly of local narrative songs that some people used to label all our greater folk poems as 'Border ballads’” A.L.Lloyd Not to be confused with bawdy ballads. To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1