The Singer of Tales

The Singer of Tales
Cover of the Second Edition
AuthorAlbert Lord
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEpic poetry, oral tradition
PublishedCambridge, MA
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN9780674975736 (2019 edition)
Websitehttps://chs.harvard.edu/book/lord-albert-bates-the-singer-of-tales/

The Singer of Tales is a book by Albert Lord that formulates oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic. Lord builds on the research of Milman Parry and their joint work recording Balkan guslar poets. It was published in 1960.

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