The Making of Percy's Reliques - Groom, Nick
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This reconstruction of pioneering antiquarianism and its processes of collecting, transcribing, and collating unravels Percy's working methods on the "Reliques", examining his correspondence, library, and papers - as well as his friendships with scholars like Samuel Johnson.
Percy's Reliques (1765) is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the eighteenth century. It dramatically influenced Wordsworth and Coleridge, Walter Scott, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first study of Percy's Reliques. It examines Percy's working methods…mehr

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This reconstruction of pioneering antiquarianism and its processes of collecting, transcribing, and collating unravels Percy's working methods on the "Reliques", examining his correspondence, library, and papers - as well as his friendships with scholars like Samuel Johnson.
Percy's Reliques (1765) is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the eighteenth century. It dramatically influenced Wordsworth and Coleridge, Walter Scott, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first study of Percy's Reliques. It examines Percy's working methods in contexts such as Englishness, cannibalism, and literary forgery.
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, 1994