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Has anyone else here read and enjoyed Pamela Dean's works? I've only read <I>Tam Lin</i> at this point, but I enjoyed it immensely. It takes the old Scottish ballad of Tam Lin and sets the events on a Minnesotan college campus in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

One of the things I liked most about the book, aside from interesting characters and an enjoyable writing style, was the number of allusions to other literary sources. T. S. Eliot was made mention of, as were Keats, Shakespeare, Dante's <I>Divine Comedy</I>, <I>The Iliad</i>, <I>The Wind in the Willows</I>, <I>The Revengers Tragedy</I>, <i>The Lady's Not For Burning</i>, <i>Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead</i>, <i>The Goblin Market</I>, and <i>The Romance of the Rose</I>, to name just a few. As a result of enjoying <I>Tam Lin</i> so much, I tracked down a copy of <I>The Lady's Not For Burning</I> in a used bookstore. It's a wonderful play, I recommend it to anyone who can find it.

In any case, I'm curious to know if anyone else has read <I>Tam Lin</i>, or any other of Dean's works, and what you thought of them.

Was there anything particular you didn't like about it? Or did it just not grab you?