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Encyclopedia: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (sometimes known as Reliques of Ancient Poetry or simply Percy's Reliques) is a collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Thomas Percy and published i...
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Feb 9, 2008 Percy's reliques of ancient English poetry (1910). Author: Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811. Volume: 1. Subject: English ballads and songs;
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Collection-library: srlf_ucla Identifier-bib: LAGE-2736303 Digitizing sponsor: MSN; Book contributor: University of California Libraries; Collection: americana; cdl; This book has an editable web page on Open Library.
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'...a valuable reprint of the original Reliques.' - Folk Music Journal 'These are handsome volumes to possess, and an indispensable addition to any library.
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Amazon.com: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets.
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Thomas Percy: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) Popularly called “Percy’s Reliques”, after its editor, Thomas Percy [see separate entry], Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) is a three-volume collection of traditional English ballads, popular songs and poetry, and historical verse,
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Jul 6, 2008 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), edited by Thomas Percy, was the first of the great ballad collections, though he may have written...
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Source: Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Although both the ballads above identify Saint George with the English town of Coventry (whose other legendary inhabitant Lady Godiva is famous for different reasons), other sources, notably the account in The Golden Legend, give as Saint George's...
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Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), ballads based on the manuscript collection of a sixteenth-century performer, had a similar -- but longer lasting -- influence on Europe's literary establishment.
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Books by Thomas Percy: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume II, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume III, The Percy Letters, The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Robert Anderson, Five pieces of Runic poetry translated from the...
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