Studies In Folk-song And Popular Poetry

An Extensive Investigation Into The Sources And Inspiration Of National Folk Song

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	FOLK-SONGS OF LOWER BRITTANY. 219
	highest literary art fails to do. The folk-songs of Brittany have this charm as well as their own pe­culiar provincial flavor; and the very crudeness and imperfection of the Sonniou in M. Luzel's collection have more power than all the elaborate poetry and picturesqueness of M. Villemarque's Celtic fabrications.