"A major academic work that is also brilliantly, clearly, humanely,
and poetically written. It can be enjoyed not only by ballad and bawdry
scholars but by everyone who picks it up." -- Kenneth S. Goldstein,
University of Pennsylvania, former president of the American Folklore
Society
"Toelken's insights . . . are unique. His study broadens and deepens
scholarly appreciation of how folksong metaphors carry their own semantic...