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 Thomas Percy Quotes
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 Thomas Percy ( 13 April , 1729 - 30 September , 1811 ) was a bishop and magazine editor. His Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) was the first of the great ballad collections, though he may have written some of it himself based on ballad...
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 Thomas Percy Information
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Thomas Percy (April 13, 1729 - September 30, 1811), Bishop of Dromore, and is remembered as editor of Tatler, Guardian, and Spectator. Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III. His greatest contribution to the world is considered to be...
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 Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Thomas Percy, China, and the Gothic.
06/22/2007: 7,662 words, approx. 26 pages While assembling the materials that were to make up his influential collection Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), Thomas Percy issued the first translation of a Chinese novel in a European language, Hau Kiou Choaan, or, The Pleasing History (1761), and he produced... summary from source:
ANQ David Mallet and Thomas Percy.
01/01/2006: 833 words, approx. 3 pages The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript letter from David Mallet to Thomas Percy, the eminent antiquary, collector, translator, bishop of Dromore, and editor of Reliques of Ancient Poetry (1765). This letter (National Library of Scotland, ms. 3648, ff. 56-57) (1) is...
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 Critical Essay by Bertram H. Davis
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In the following excerpt, Davis examines Percy's Reliques, analyzing the text's sources and providing an overview of its contents and a brief survey of its various editions.
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Critical Essay by Nick Groom
9,765 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Groom examines the relevance of James Macpherson's Ossian to Percy's work on the Reliques, pointing to contemporary eighteenth-century controversies regarding the importance of textual histories and sources.
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Critical Essay by Bertram H. Davis
7,277 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Davis examines contemporary controversies surrounding Percy's Reliques, focusing specifically on Percy's accuracy and editorial practices.
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