"Der Erlkönig" Scott’s translation of Goethe’s famed ballad is the first poem in the Apology.

Walter Scott’s An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799) Introduction Textual history The Scottish-German Nexus Scott and M.G. Lewis Poets Gottfried August Bürger Johann Wolfgang von Goethe M.G. Lewis Robert Southey John Aikin Annotated Text of the Poems Appendix: Scott’s "Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad" (1830) Bibliography Acknowledgments