LORD, Albert Bates.

8vo., light blue cloth, lettered gilt, 132pp.. In good condition, neat owner name inside. Cloth a little faded at edges. Albert Bates Lord (1912 – 1991) professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University. He had a particular interest in south Slav oral poetry, publishing “The Singer of Tales”. Lord studied and made field recordings of Serbian heroic epics sung to the ‘gusle’ through which he found strong commonalities concerning the oral composition of traditional storytelling. This grammar covers Croatian and Serbian - ekavski and jekavski as well as the cyrillic alphabet.