The Fairies in Tradition and Literature

"This book is a continuation of The Anatomy of Puck, which dealt with the fairy beliefs used by Shakespeare, his contemporaries and his immediate successors. In the course of working on it I found so many accounts of the fairies that belonged to later times that it seemed to me worth pursuing the subject and examining the survival of fairy beliefs and the various fashions in the literary treatment of fairies, from Shakespeare's time to the present day." -- Preface
Copyright 1967; reprint of 1967 Routledge publication as first Routledge Classics edition