Volume 1 of the four-volume, international bibliography contains over 11,140 entries referring to books, Festschriften, analyzed collections, and articles which focus on General, English, American, medieval and neo-Latin, and Celtic literatures. A section of folklore is also included. The section on general literature includes: (1) aesthetics, (2) literary criticism and literary theory, (3) general and comparative literature, (4) themes and types, (5) bibliographical, and (6) miscellaneous. The section on folklore includes: (1) general, (2) prose narratives, (3) gnomic folklore, (4) folk poetry, (5) folk games and toys, (6) dramatic folklore, (7) music and dance, (8) folk customs, beliefs, and symbolism, and (9) material culture. Nearly all entries appeared in 1970. Articles which were too late for inclusion in the 1969 bibliography are listed. The master list of the nearly 1,500 periodicals from which entries are derived is furnished at the beginning of the volume with a table of abbreviations. An author index is provided. Starred items indicate availability of an abstract in the Modern Language Association (MLA) abstract collection. (RL)