| Directory > Society > Folklore > Literature > Poetry Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and
scarce publications.
http://www.blackmask.com/books32c/olengdex.htm
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Looking North Of The Greek World: The Slavic Folk Poetry of The Balkans
Curriculum materials comparing ancient Greek and Slavic folk poetry.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.01.x.html
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Traditional Malay Verse - Pantun
Brief article on the Malay quatrain, which used to be an integral part of Malay life.
http://www.kampungnet.com.sg/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=vi....
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Folk Poetry
Essay on Brazil's "Literatura de Cordel", oral poetry that is printed in chapbooks as
well.
http://campina.com.br/braulio/folk1.htm
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Drinking from the Well of Poetry
Nadia G. Yaqub's dissertation on tradition, composition, and identity in the oral Palestinian
poetry duel (PDF format).
http://www.unc.edu/~yaqub/pdfdiss/diss.html
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Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature
Folk poetry of northeastern Brazil.
http://www.maria-brazil.org/cordel.htm
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Are There Lines in Folk Poetry?
Article by B. Hayes and M. MacEachern discussing meters and stanza structures in English folk
poetry.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/hayes/lines.pdf
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