A German interest in English folksongs
22nd April 2020
German interest in folksongs began in the middle of the eighteenth century, stoked in no small part by the Europe-wide mania for Ossian. Thomas Percy’s influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) was also much admired, and the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who had been sent a copy by Rudolf Erich Raspe (of Munchausen fame) […]
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