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At 11:43 PM 3/4/99 +0000, you wrote: > Dear friends, > > I'm looking for books or articles about the interest of the >Romantics in Oral/Popular Literature, particularly popular ballads. I'd be >most grateful for your help. > J. J. Dias Marques > > > The following are in addition to Hustvedt's book on 18th century ballad scholarship and Friedman's The Great Ballad Revival, which you probably have already. Also, Scottish literary historians are currently re-evaluating Walter Scott, James Hogg, et al, so there is undoubtedly some very recent work on the topic from a Scottish perspective. Mary Ellen Brown. Burns and Tradition. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Jacobsen, Per Schelde, and Barbara Fass Leavy. Ibsen's Forsaken Merman: Folklore in the Late Plays. New York : New York University Press, 1988. [Not sure if Ibsen is counted among the Romantics, but he was certainly influenced by them at a young age (he in fact collected ballads at one point), and this study, a collaboration between an anthropologist and a literary scholar, argues that the influence didn't entirely wear off.] George Deacon. John Clare and the Folk Tradition. London: S. Browne, 1983. Tom Cheesman. The Shocking Ballad Picture Show: German Popular Literature and Cultural History. Oxford, U.K.; Providence, R.I.: Berg Publishers, 1994. If I can think of anything else, I'll send it along. All the best, Jamie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%