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 2 (of 3)" by Percy and Wheatley is a collection of ballads published in 1765. This landmark anthology rescued forgotten English folk songs and popular ballads from obscurity, including tales of Robin Hood, border warfare, and legendary heroes. Bishop Thomas Percy gathered these works from a manuscript rescued from being used as fire kindling, broadside collections, and oral tradition. The collection helped transform eighteenth-century literature, inspiring Romantic poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth while sparking a passionate interest in folklore across Europe. (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/45940 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45940 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134044.0 45940