![]() ![]() ![]() On the other complemented the discourse of his Marxist contemporaries, ![]() ![]() Volumes that on the one hand developed systematically the sleuthing ofĮarlier folk song scholars and antiquarians, such as Frank Kidson, and (3) and his wide-ranging The History of Street Literature, (4) were His monograph on Theīroadside Ballad, (2) his detailed case study of the printer John Pitts, Vernacular and popular print culture and ephemera. Unassuming way, he wrote himself into every folklorist'sīibliography with his ground-breaking scholarship, which focused around Leslie Shepard's other label for himself-'a bit of aīack-room boy'-is perhaps more appropriate, for, in a quiet, He confessed himself to be both a recluse and an outsider. In his adopted home in the Irish Republic Great Vampire Stories (1977) and How to Protect Yourself against Black Even on a modern housing estate, Leslie managed to createĪn aura of mystery appropriate to the editor of The Dracula Book of My wife parted an overgrown leylandii hedge to reveal it hiding among However, house Number One was not to be seen until Had conversed and corresponded since the late 1960s, at his home in To renew my acquaintance with an old friend, Leslie Shepard, with whom I On a bright May morning in 1997, I made the first of several visits APA style: Leslie Alan Shepard (1917-2004).2006 English Folk Dance and Song Society 06 May. MLA style: "Leslie Alan Shepard (1917-2004)." The Free Library. ![]()
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