Note 171 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
Reading edition
English Fairy Tales, 1898, p. 247. Ferdinand Wolf, a man not given to hazy and romantic views, dismisses the cante-fable as “jedesfalls ... eine Entartung,” a degenerate state of the communal ballad. Proben port. u. catal. Volksromanzen, Wien, 1856, p. 20, note 2.