In calling my book Child Ballad I have consciously grafted poems about two young children on to the ghost of the ballad tradition in a spirit of time travel, moving between present and past with merry promiscuity.
The title has a further dimension, that of the chivalric rank, Childe or Child, which, derived from the Old English Cild, means young lord. In the Middle Ages, it designated a nobleman's son who had not yet won his spurs.
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