Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date Percy, Thomas 1729-1811 creator Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) 1838-1917 text utu 2014 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Percy and Wheatley is a collection of ballads published in 1765. Bishop Thomas Percy rescued ancient manuscripts from destruction and gathered traditional songs including "Sir Patrick Spens" and "The Ballad of Chevy Chase." Though Percy's editing methods drew criticism, his work captured public imagination and helped transform 18th-century literature from Neo-Classicism toward Romanticism. The collection inspired poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth, sparked folklore movements across Europe, and made ballad collecting a popular pursuit throughout the Western world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry Release date is 2014-06-11 Produced by Richard Tonsing, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 Ballads, English -- Texts Romances, English -- History and criticism Minstrels English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45939 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45939 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134044.0 45939