Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Thomas Warton, edited by M.G. Robinson & Leah Dennis
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & William Shenstone, edited by C. Brooks
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Evan Evans, edited by A. Lewis
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and John Pinkerton
Author: Thomas PercyThe Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Richard Farmer, edited by Cleanth Brooks
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Thomas Percy
Author: Bertram H. DavisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280164X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Making of Percy's Reliques
Author: Nick GroomPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198184591
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.
Letters of Thomas Warton to Thomas Percy
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Collection of selected letters from Thomas Warton to Thomas Percy; facsimiles (negative photostats) of original manuscripts in the Harvard College Library. Letters are here numbered in accordance with The correspondence of Thomas Warton, edited by David Fairer. All letters are from Warton to Percy, except Letter 101 (1762 August 26), from Percy to Warton. Letters 101 and 104 are incomplete copies.
The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910
Author: David MatthewsPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Before the 1760s -- with the major exception of Chaucer -- nearly all of Middle English literature lay undiscovered and ignored. Because established scholars regarded later medieval literature as primitive and barbaric, the study of this rich literary heritage was relegated to antiquarians and dilettantes. In The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910, David Matthews chronicles the gradual rediscovery of this literature and the formation of Middle English as a scholarly pursuit. Matthews details how the careers, class positions, and ambitions of only a few men gave shape and direction to the discipline. Mostly from the lower middle class, they worked in the church or in law and hoped to exploit medieval literature for financial success and social advancement. Where Middle English was concerned, Matthews notes, these scholars were self-taught, and their amateurism came at the price of inaccurately edited and often deliberately "improved" texts intended for a general public that sought appealing, rather than authentic, reading material. This study emphasizes the material history of the discipline, examining individual books and analyzing introductions, notes, glossaries, promotional materials, lists of subscribers, and owners' annotations to assess the changing methodological approaches of the scholars and the shifts in readership. Matthews explores the influence of aristocratic patronage and the societies formed to further the editing and publication of texts. And he examines the ideological uses of Middle English and the often contentious debates between these scholars and organizations about the definition of Englishness itself. A thorough work of scholarship, The Making of MiddleEnglish presents for the first time a detailed account of the formative phase of Middle English studies and provides new perspectives on the emergence of medieval studies, canon formation, the politics of editing, and the history of the book.
Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830
Author: Daniel CookPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137332492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.