Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (Chiefly of the Lyric kind), Together with some few of later Date - that's the full title - is the name of the anthology that Thomas Percy wrote in a first incomplete edition in 1765 on the English sagas, ballads, street songs, poems and adventure stories that he has collected over the years on the basis of manuscripts. It was not completed until 1867/1868 after several revisions by the editors and editors who followed him.

History of origin

Thomas Percy , who later became bishop of the Irish Dromore , met in 1756 while serving as pastor of Easton Maudit a friend's house to a later named after him Percy Folio MS named collection of manuscripts of the Middle Ages , which one in 1650 following a verbal lecture in Lancashire and Cheshire recorded would have. Since it was used in the house to start the fireplace, parts were already missing. Binding the manuscript resulted in additional sections being lost. Among the 191 texts that have been preserved were medieval Arthus romances , poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries and street songs , as well as folk and knightly adventure stories and ballads about Robin Hood . Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone encouraged Percy to publish the texts which, after a first edition from 1765 ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Cosisting of old heroic Ballads, Songs and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (chiefly of the Lyric Kind), together with some few of later date , London), was only completed in 1867/68 after many years of editing by Percy and other editors. This, however, formed the basis for Francis James Child's collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–1898).

expenditure

  • Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (Chiefly of the Lyric kind), Together with some few of later Date , London 1765 ( GBS ).

literature

  • HF Wagner: The penetration of Percy's Reliques in Germany , dissertation, Heidelberg 1897

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Böker : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. In: Major works of English literature. Individual presentations and interpretations. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the End of the Victorian Age. Compiled by Henning Thies , Kindler Verlag , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-463-40271-8 , p. 443f.
  2. ^ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . Vol. III. Henry Washbourne & Co., London 1857 . On: books.google.co.uk. Accessed November 16, 2012.