Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy - 9781108077255
Reliques of Ancient English PoetryConsisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets\nAuthor(s): Thomas Percy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108077255, 978-1108077255\nSynopsis\nWhile visiting a friend, the writer and cleric Thomas Percy [tel] noticed a neglected folio whose pages were being used by the maids to light the fire. Upon inspection, this manuscript was found to be a seventeenth-century collection of historical ballads. Following this discovery, Percy collected further ballads and songs from a number of sources, which he published in this three-volume work in 1765, although ultimately only a quarter of the texts he presented came from that original manuscript. Although this work proved to be incredibly popular, Percy's idiosyncratic editorial practices also received much criticism. The collection centres on historical ballads and romances, demonstrating.
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