Origins of Rhymes, Songs and Sayings: A Companion to Jean Harrowvens' "Origins of Festivals and Feasts"

Traditional rhymes, songs and sayings provide vital links with the past. From the lullabies of pre-Christian times via the Roman, Saxon, Norman, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Hanoverian and Victorian periods and coming right up to space travel and author features what can be described as 'the poetry of the ages'.