Hence the an searched for another and deeper lightenment, the Romantics rooted in mystery, and culture of the people, ing in the inner sanctuary of the poet's self. give form to this It is appropriate that the first attempt to folk' culture was a fabrication, recognised as such by that great champion of the classical spirit, Dr Johnson. Macpherson's Poems of Ossian purported to be translated from a Gaelic origi nal, in fact it invented a lost community of heroes, in which na ture and man were in harmony, in which human life was idealised and and in which the burden of freedom was happily put down The Scottish Border ballads, Herder's anthol of folk poetry, von Arnim and Brentano's Das Knaben Wunderhorn all such collections were put together as much from bourgeois d and as ditions.