Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) by Percy and Wheatley
"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3)" by Percy and Wheatley is a collection of ballads published in 1765. This landmark anthology rescued forgotten English folk songs and popular ballads from obscurity, including tales of Robin Hood, border warfare, and legendary heroes. Bishop Thomas Percy gathered these works from a manuscript rescued from being used as fire kindling, broadside collections, and oral tradition. The collection helped transform eighteenth-century literature, inspiring
Romantic poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth while sparking a passionate interest in folklore across Europe. (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 2 (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: 75.6 (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. | 45940 |
| Release Date | Jun 11, 2014 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1695 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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