1890 Relics of Ancient English Poetry Thomas Percy Minstrel Songs Ballads 3v SET

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1890 Relics of Ancient English Poetry Thomas Percy Minstrel Songs Ballads 3v SETA three-volume set of ancient English poetry by Thomas Percy including minstrel songs, ballads, and poems.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 Bishop Thomas Percy and published in 1765.Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811) was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland. Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III. Percy's greatest contribution is considered to be his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), the first of the great ballad collections, which was the one work most responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that was a significant part of the Romantic movement.Main author : Thomas PercyTitle : Reliques of ancient English poetry : consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later datePublished : Philadelphia : Gebbie, 1890.Language : EnglishNotes & contents :· 1 st edition thus· 3 volume set· Uncut leavesFREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEWear : wear as seen in photosBinding : tight and secure bindingPages : complete with all (xcvii + 460) + (vii + 397) + (vii + 423) pages; plus indexes, prefaces and suchPublisher : Philadelphia : Gebbie, 1890.Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEShipping:Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Satisfaction Guarantee:Customer satisfaction is our first priority. Notify us within 7 days of receiving your item and we will offer a full refund guarantee without reservation.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 Bishop Thomas Percy and published in 1765.Contents [hide]1 Sources2 Content3 Reception4 Notes5 External linksSources[edit]The basis of the work was the manuscript which became known as the Percy Folio. Percy found the folio in the house of his friend Humphrey Pitt of Shifnal, a small market town of Shropshire. It was on the floor, and Pitt's maid had been using the leaves to light fires. Once rescued, Percy would use just forty-five of the ballads in the folio for his book, despite claiming the bulk of the collection came from this folio. Other sources were the Pepys Library of broadside ballads collected by Samuel Pepys and Collection of Old Ballads published in 1723, possibly by Ambrose Philips. Bishop Percy was encouraged to publish the work by his friends Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone, who also found and contributed ballads.Percy did not treat the folio nor the texts in it with the scrupulous care expected of a modern editor of manuscripts. He wrote his own notes directly on the folio pages, emended the rhymes and even pulled pages out of the document to give the printer without making copies.[1] He was criticised for these actions even at the time, most notably by Joseph Ritson, a fellow antiquary. The folio he worked from seems to have been written by a single copyist and errors such as pan and wale for wan and pale needed correcting.Content[edit]The Reliques contained one hundred and eighty ballads in three volumes with three sections in each. It contains such important ballads as The Ballad of Chevy Chase, The Battle of Otterburn, Lillibullero, The Dragon of Wantley, The Nut-Brown Maid and Sir Patrick Spens along with ballads mentioned by or possibly inspiring Shakespeare, several ballads about Robin Hood and one of the Wandering Jew.[2]The claim that the book contained samples of ancient poetry was only partially correct. The last part of each volume was given over to more contemporary works--often less than a hundred years old--included to stress the continuing tradition of the ball... read more

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