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Heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend, was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Traditionally depicted as being dressed in Lincoln green, he is often portrayed as "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" alongside his band of Merry Men. Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the late-medieval period, and continues to be widely represented in literature, films and television

Ballads

Collections

Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads (ed.) by Joseph Ritson (1795).
- Volume 1 IA and Volume 2 IA
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads no. 117 through 154, ed. by Francis James Child (1882–1898).

Early ballads (15th and 16th century)

Ballads in the Percy Folio (17th century)

Other ballads

Reference works

"Hood, Robin," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Hood, Robin," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Robin Hood," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Robin Hood," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Robin Hood," in A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield by Sidney Addy (1888).

Other works

"Robin Hood. To a Friend" by John Keats (1820).
"Robin Hood" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2)," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, no. 2 (December 1857).
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1883).
"The Origin of the Robin Hood Epos" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 3 (1885)
"Eulogy of Robin Hood" by G. K. Chesterton (1903).
"Robin Hood," in Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (1908).
Robin Hood, his book by Eva March Tappan (1908). IA
Life in the Greenwood by Marion Florence Lansing (1909). IA