Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3)

Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

by Thomas Percy (Editor) & Henry Henry Benjamin Wheatley (Editor)

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Language: English

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"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3)" by Percy and Wheatley is a ballad collection published in 1765. This groundbreaking anthology gathered 180 traditional ballads and songs from manuscripts and oral sources, including famous works like "Sir Patrick Spens" and Robin Hood tales. Bishop Thomas Percy's collection captured public imagination, inspiring Romantic poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth while helping shift literary taste from Neo-Classicism toward Romanticism. The work sparked a movement in folklore collecting across Europe and established the study of oral poetry as a serious pursuit. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2014-06-11	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)