[Hardy-l] More Folklore

[Rosemarie Morgan]

First,  excuse me if you have already covered these sources -- I came upon 
them quite by accident when looking for something else in Tim Dolin's 
excellent editon of UGT and thought they might be helpful.

C. M  Jackson-Houlston has studied the formative influences of folk-song on 
Hardy: "Thomas Hardy's Use of Traditional Song," *Nineteenth-Century 
Literature* 44
(1989), 324-5

See Hardy's letter to "The English Folk Dance Society" concerning "caste" 
:  villagers "were divided into two distinct castes..." etc See *Journal of 
the English Folk Dance Society* second series [1927], 54.

Cheers
Rosemarie

  other popular culture or
>folklore specialists
>Jacky