Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) by Percy and Wheatley
"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Percy and Wheatley is a collection of ballads published in 1765. Bishop Thomas Percy rescued ancient manuscripts from destruction and gathered traditional songs including "Sir Patrick Spens" and "The Ballad of Chevy Chase." Though Percy's editing methods drew criticism, his work captured public imagination and helped transform 18th-century literature from Neo-Classicism toward Romanticism. The collection inspired poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth, sparked
folklore movements across Europe, and made ballad collecting a popular pursuit throughout the Western world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Editor | Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 |
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| Editor | Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 |
| Title |
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 |
| Subject | Ballads, English -- Texts |
| Subject | Romances, English -- History and criticism |
| Subject | Minstrels |
| Subject | English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 45939 |
| Release Date | Jun 11, 2014 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1439 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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