tolkien-influencer-corpus

a collection of works thought to have influenced Tolkien's writing

• The Princess and the Goblin (1872) George MacDonald • wikipedia • gutenberg
• She: A History of Adventure (1887) H. Rider Haggard • wikipedia • gutenberg
• The Wood Beyond the World (1894) William Morris • wikipedia • gutenberg
• The Well at the World's End (1896) William Morris • wikipedia • gutenberg
• The Black Douglas (1899) by S. R. Crockett • wikipedia • gutenberg
• The Book of Wonder (1912) by Lord Dunsany • wikipedia • gutenberg
• A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) David Lindsay • wikipedia • gutenberg
• The Worm Ouroboros (1922) E. R. Eddison • wikipedia • gutenberg

If you have other suggestions for out-of-copyright works to include, please contact me.

• raw/ — the raw files downloaded from Project Gutenberg
• txt/ — the cleaned up text files with Project Gutenberg boilerplate removed
• xml/ — XML versions of each work marked up
• metadata.tsv — summary of metadata on each work