Bronson, Bertrand Harris 1902-1986

Overview

Works:	211 works in 762 publications in 2 languages and 13,389 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Literary criticism Biographies Personal correspondence Essays Literature Novels Fiction Poetry History
Roles:	Author, Editor, htt, Author of introduction, Other, Creator, Correspondent, Honoree
Classifications:	ML3650, 784.3

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Most widely held works about Bertrand Harris Bronson

The Ballad image : essays presented to Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )
British literature and culture : essays by students, colleagues, friends and other admirers of Bertrand H. Bronson( Book )
by David Park( )
Sidney Robertson Cowell correspondence by Sidney Robertson Cowell( )
Sidney Robertson Cowell collection by Sidney Robertson Cowell( )

Book reviews( Book )
by Mildred Stewart( )
Bertrand Harris Bronson papers by Bertrand Harris Bronson( )

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Most widely held works by Bertrand Harris Bronson

In search of Chaucer by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

20 editions published between 1950 and 2015 in English and held by 1,351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of truth which resides in each, the literary values which can be extracted from them, their essentail relation to one another, and the perennial problem of appearance and reality.Professor Bronson is also concerned with the general critical approach to Chaucer's writings. He feels that many recent Chaucerian scholars have been misled by their application of critical disciplines nourished on the metaphysical poets to a poet who deliberately practised a style capable of being followed by a moderately attentive ear. The fact that Chaucer's poetry was composed for oral delivery has received no more than lip service from critics; yet Chaucer's relation to his audience is obviously of the greatest importance in understanding his poems. It behooves us, therefore, to clarify our thoughts as to the kind of techniques we may fittingly apply. Professor Bronson suggests that a less sophisticated way of looking at the subject might yield better results.Professor Bronson's book is a form of introduction to this new view of Chaucer; it is not a complete guide but an explanatory visit to each sphere of Chaucer's world, skilfully evocative of the people of the dream legends, the pilgrimage, the literary heroes and heroines of the Middle Ages, whom Chaucer brought into his poetry. This book is decorated with drawings in the manner of woodcuts taken from the three worlds of Chaucer's poetry. The Alexander Lectures for 1958-59

The traditional tunes of the child ballads with their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson( )

19 editions published between 1953 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the musical counterpart to the famous Francis James Child collection of English and Scottish ballads from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Professor Child's canon established the texts; Professor Bronson's work provides both tunes and texts. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Johnson Agonistes, and other essays by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

40 editions published between 1946 and 2021 in English and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The traditional tunes of the Child ballads : with their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

33 editions published between 1959 and 2015 in English and German and held by 1,085 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With this volume, incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads. As in the previous volumes, the texts are linked with their proper traditional tunes, systematically ordered and grouped to show melodic kinship and characteristic variations developed during the course of oral transmission. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

The singing tradition of Child's popular ballads by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

21 editions published between 1976 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unsurpassed in its presentation of texts, this exhaustive collection devoted little attention to the ballad music, a want that was filled by Bertrand Harris Bronson in his four volume Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. The present book is an abridged, one-volume edition of that work, setting forth music and text for proven examples of oral tradition, with a new comprehensive introduction. Its convenient format makes readily available to students and scholars the materials for a study of the Child ballads as they have been preserved in the British-American singing tradition. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Facets of the Enlightenment; studies in English literature and its contexts by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

19 editions published between 1968 and 2021 in English and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ballad as song by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

17 editions published between 1969 and 2020 in English and held by 914 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Consists of essays on the traditional tunes of the Child ballads

The traditional tunes of the Child ballads : with their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson( )

10 editions published between 1962 and 2015 in English and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rasselas; poems, and selected prose by Samuel Johnson( Book )

27 editions published between 1952 and 1971 in English and held by 711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Donated by Henry Spencer, August 2009

In search of Chaucer by Bertrand Harris Bronson( )

12 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in English and held by 455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book is a study of the three worlds in Chaucer's poetry, raising questions about the kind of truth which resides in each, the literary values which can be extracted from them, their essentail relation to one another, and the perennial problem of appearance and reality

Five studies in literature by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

25 editions published between 1940 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson( Book )

7 editions published in 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Studies in the comic by John Frederic Ross( Book )

27 editions published between 1941 and 1980 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Printing as an index of taste in eighteenth century England by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

16 editions published between 1958 and 1963 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Johnson and Boswell; three essays by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

26 editions published between 1944 and 1977 in English and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chaucer's Hous of fame : another hypothesis by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

28 editions published between 1934 and 1978 in English and German and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In appreciation of Chaucer's Parlement of foules by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

23 editions published between 1935 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Johnson on Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson( Book )

1 edition published in 1968 in English and held by 231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music & literature in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by James Emerson Phillips( Book )

18 editions published between 1953 and 1981 in English and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Joseph Ritson, scholar-at-arms by Bertrand Harris Bronson( Book )

13 editions published in 1938 in English and Undetermined and held by 140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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