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"Willow"
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karel jaromír erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was born on November 7, 1811, in Miletín. After attending gymnasium in Hradec Králové, he studied history and law
at the university in Prague and later was a member of the Bohemian Society of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Influenced by the Brothers Grimm and
the burgeoning study in Europe of folk literature, he collected (as well as tanslated those not originally in Czech) more than 2,200 Slavic fairy tales, folk songs,
and legends, drawing on these to compile, in verse form, his most famous book A Bouquet of National Legends (Kytice), which was first published in 1853. He
produced as well a collection of Czech fairy tales and a five-volume compendium of Czech folk songs. And in 1869 he published his seminal
Selected Folk Tales and Legends from other Slavic Branches. He died in Prague on November 21, 1870.
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published by TSP:
A Bouquet
[forthcoming]
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