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The Making of Percy's Reliques »
Authors: Nick Groom
ISBN-13: 9780198184591, ISBN-10: 019818459X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: October 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Nick Groom
University of Exeter
Book Synopsis
Thomas Percy's Reliques (1765) is one of the founding texts of English literature, an epoch-making collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined the canon of popular poetry and dramatically influenced Romanticism. This is the first monograph devoted to Percy's seminal work. It unravels Percy's working methods and examines his correspondence, library, and papers.
Table of Contents
| Notes on the Text | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Ballad and Literary Antiquarianism | 19 |
| 3 | Macpherson and Percy | 61 |
| 4 | The Genesis of the Reliques | 106 |
| 5 | 1761: The Making of the Reliques | 145 |
| 6 | Printing the Reliques | 193 |
| 7 | Conclusion | 236 |
| App. I | First Transcriptions | 247 |
| App. II | A Collection of Old Ballads | 250 |
| App. III | Robin Hood's Garland | 252 |
| App. IV | The 'First Draft' | 253 |
| App. V | The Revised 'First Draft' | 258 |
| App. VI | The Two-Volume Reliques Draft ('Gothic Antiquities') | 261 |
| App. VII | The Index Draft | 266 |
| App. VIII | The Copy Draft | 270 |
| App. IX | The Cancelled Ballads | 273 |
| App. X | The Order of the First Edition (1765) | 274 |
| Index | 280 |
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