Reliques of Ancient English Poetry - 3 Volume Set
While visiting a friend, the writer and cleric Thomas Percy (1729-1811) 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 cen…
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- ISBN: 978-1-108-07723-1
- EAN: 9781108077231
- Produktnummer: 17190119
- Verlag: Cambridge
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 1164 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.2 cm x D7.1 cm 1'356 g
- Gewicht: 1356
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