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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Percy Folio The folio is hand written from the middle of the 17th century. In addition to the ballads culled and compiled by Percy and Child, the folio contains a 14th century alliterative poem in Middle English entitled Death and Liffe and Scottish Feilde, which is a poem on the Battle of the Flodden. Nevertheless, the Percy Folio is, like the Exeter Book, the Pearl Manuscript, and the Cotton library's monstrarum librarum of the Beowulf manuscript, one of the most important documents in English poetry. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Percy_Folio   (356 words)

YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Percy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Thomas Percy (1729–1811), English poet, Bishop of Dromore, editor of the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Spectator The House of Percy (also Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages, having gained the title Baron Percy already in 1066. Percy Islands, Alaska, group of islands in the borough of Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Percy   (574 words)

Percy Folio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Percy Folio is a folio book of English ballads used by Thomas Percy to compile his Reliques of Ancient Poetry. The folio is hand written from the middle of the 17th century. In addition to the ballads culled and compiled by Percy and Child, the folio contains a 14th century alliterative poem in Middle English entitled Death and Liffe and Scottish Feilde, which is a poem on the Battle of the Flodden. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Percy_Folio   (333 words)

Thomas Percy Percy's rediscovery of medieval English poetry also inspired poets of the Romantic revival in Germany. Percy, who became Bishop of Dromore in 1782, drew most of the ballads for Reliques from the Percy Folio, a seventeenth-century manuscript which he acquired from his friend Humphrey Pitt of Shifnal in Shropshire. The manuscript was saved from destruction by Percy when he discovered it "being used by the Maids to light the fire." The manuscript, now in the British Museum, is a collection of materials of all kinds, but most important for its preservation of ballad poetry. www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/english/percy.html   (181 words)

Cordula's Web. Thomas Percy Percy's first work was a translation from a Portuguese manuscript of a Chinese story, published in 1761. Thomas Percy was angered by the parody, but Hester Thrale says that he soon came to his senses and realized that Johnson was satirizing the form, and not the poem. In 1782, Percy was ordained as the bishop of Dromore. www.cordula.ws /authors/percyt.html   (885 words)

Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) THOMAS PERCY (1729-1811), afterwards bishop of Dromore, in 1765 published his Reliques of English Poetry, in which several excellent old songs and ballads were revived, and a selection made of the best lyrical pieces scattered through the works of dramatic and other authors. Percy was born at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, son of a grocer, and having taken holy orders, became successively chaplain to the king, dean of Carlisle, and bishop of Dromore: the latter dignity he possessed from 1782 till his death at the advanced age of eighty-two. Percy found it lying dirty on the floor under a bureau in the parlour of his friend Humphrey Pitt of Shifnall, Shropshire, being used by the maids to light the fire. athena.english.vt.edu /~drad/Courses/ENGL3034/Percy/ChambersPercy.html   (409 words)

Bloomsbury.com - Research centre Percy, Thomas (1729-1811) Clergyman and antiquarian; he became Bishop of Dromore in 1782. Along with James Macpherson, Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray, Percy was a pioneer of the literary exoticism which flourished in the later 18th century. Although his editorial approach was not that of a modern purist, the volume marks a significant phase in the revival of interest in early poetry, and exerted a strong influence on later poets such as Thomas Chatterton, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=108787&bid=9   (167 words)

Pad Folio -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Foolscap Folio (commonly contracted to ''foolscap'' or ''folio'') is paper cut to the size of 8½ × 13½ inches (216 × 342 mm). In addition to the ballads culled and compiled by Percy and Child, the folio contains a 14th century alliterative poem in Middle English entitled ''Death and Liffe'' and ''Socttish Feilde'', which is a poem on the battle of the Flodden. Nevertheless, the Percy Folio is, like the Exeter Book, the ''Pearl Manuscript,'' and the ''monstrarum librarum'' of the ''Beowulf'' manuscript of the Cotton library, one of the most important documents in English poetry. www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/110/pad-folio.html   (879 words)

Sing a Song: A Celebration of Traditional Music of Ireland & Elsewhere in Print Thomas Percy (1729-1811), scholar and Church of Ireland bishop of Dromore, rescued an old manuscript containing much older songs and ballads just as it was about to be used by a servant to keep a fire going. The publication of Percy’s Reliques in 1765 was a major landmark in the publication of books devoted to older ballads and songs. Percy’s Reliques seems to have sparked an interest in collecting older ballads and songs an example of which is seen here in Cunningham’s collection. www.library.villanova.edu /services/exhibits/singasong/singasong_case1.htm   (447 words)

[No title] He agreed with Percy that ballads were composed and sung by minstrels, and based his discussion on the materials brought forward by Percy and Ritson for use in their great controversy.[43] Ritson himself never doubted that ballads were composed and sung by individual authors, though he might refuse to call them minstrels. He did not of course realize the extent to which the Bishop reworked his materials, as the publication of the folio manuscript has since revealed it, and Ritson's captious remarks on the subject were naturally discounted on the score of their ill-temper. Scott constantly refers to the work of Percy, Warton, Tressan,[77] Ritson, and Ellis, in the study of ancient romances, but in editing _Sir Tristrem_ he made one part of the field his own, and became the authority whom he felt obliged to quote in the Essay on Romance. www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/6/7/1/16715/16715-8.txt   (13144 words)

§9. Sources of Ballads. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and ... In print of the early sixteenth century comes a long outlaw ballad, Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesley; and, slightly later, there follow in manuscript Cheviot and Otterburn, Captain Car—the latter, also, recovered later from tradition—and a version of Sir Andrew Barton. This folio is the most important of all the ballad sources. It is supplemented by the Percy papers—copies made at sundry places in England and Scotland, mainly from recitation; by a number of broadsides and “garlands,” where the task of culling out real traditional material becomes difficult to a degree; and, finally, by collectors in Scotland, Herd, Mrs. www.bartleby.com /212/1709.html   (571 words)

David Ketterer- Frankenstein’s "Conversion" from Natural Magic to Modern Science—and a Shifted (and ... As a result of Percy Shelley’s zigzag cancellation, the lecture that Frankenstein attended was on natural philosophy rather than chemistry. I, folio 2 recto) to "indefinite" (Rieger 33.20/1.1:54). In spite of the statement that "our family was not scientific" (folio 2 recto; Rieger 34.5-6/1.1:54), it is Victor’s father who explains the power of electricity after Victor witnessed the oak destroyed by lightning. www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/71/ketterer71art.htm   (9420 words)

18th Century Texts Johnson encouraged Percy to edit the Reliques and praised his “minute accuracy of enquiry”, William Shenstone helped with the planning of the work and Thomas Warton searched Oxford libraries for comparative texts. Percy “made the poetry of popular tradition accessible to educated readers and so transmitted its strength and simplicity to the early Romantic poets. century, and, when Percy found it in a friend’s house, about to be used to light a fire, the Reliques incorporated many ballads, songs, and medieval romances supplied by friends who, at Percy’s request, ‘rommaged’ in libraries, attics, and warehouses for manuscripts and early editions. www.c18th.com /author-works.aspx?id=293   (169 words)

percy Among the archival material housed in Northumberland County Record Office is a series of bound folio volumes bearing the bookplate of George Algernon Fifth Duke of Northumberland. Hugh Percy, second Duke of Northumberland was instrumental in raising his own small army; paying, clothing, arming and equipping them. There is one published history of the Percy Volunteers by Colonel J.G.Hicks entitled "The Percy Artillery" which is the records of the "Percy Tenantry Volunteers" from 1805-1814 and those of the "Second Northumberland (Percy) Artillery Volunteers" 1859-1899, published by Spottiswoode of London in 1895. www.rothbury.com /roth/percy.htm   (559 words)

[No title] Those who wish for a more minute analysis of the laws of alliterative verse, as practised by the Anglo-Saxon and early English poets, may consult an exhaustive essay on the subject by Professor W. Skeat, prefixed to vol. of Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript; only the reader must be on his guard against an error which pervades it, and which this able writer seems to have derived from Rask. In the middle of the 18th century Bishop Percy decided this question with sufficient accuracy, though he mixed up his statement with a blunder which it is not easy to account for. encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=2299   (723 words)

Douglas Percy Bliss ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Percy Thomas, Sailboat anchored in harbour, houses in background, 1898 Percy Robertson, The National Gallery from the Steps of St. Martin"s in the Field, 19th - 20th century Abigail Lane: Lane emerged as a member of the Freeze generation, and, along with Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas, was part of the 1988 exhibition that showcased the works of Goldsmiths College students. www.wwar.com /masters/b/bliss-douglas_percy.html   (1097 words)

Benedict: Making the Modern Reader - Chapter Four: READING SYSTEMS IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Percy's three-volume Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) exemplifies the fashionable taste for primitive verse. The most vociferous critic of Percy's Reliques did not attack him for valorizing productions of mean literary status, however, but on the contrary for attempting to elevate this status by erroneous historical assumptions and poor editing. Ritson, as his argument with Percy shows, rejected elitist distinctions in literature and favored ballads as much as classical genres; at the end of his life, indeed, he enthusiastically supported the revolutionary government of France, even during the Terror, although he seems to have been growing deranged. press.princeton.edu /books/benedict/chapter_4.html   (11090 words)

Early Child Ballads Percy published some material from the folio (well, based on the folio - he wasn't above `improving' it), and the manuscript itself (what was left of it) was published in 1867, in three volumes of about five-hundred pages each. It is worth noting that the Percy folio does not give refrains for its ballads, even in cases where we have strong reason to believe that such refrains were sung in the oral tradition. The Percy Folio is interesting to us, as a window on an older tradition of balladry, but its ballads tend to constitute particularly recalcitrant material for the modern performer. www.pbm.com /~lindahl/ballads/early_child   (8688 words)

English Literature: Modern eBook This same passion for the “sounding cataract” and the “tall rock,” this appetite for the deep and gloomy wood, gave its vogue in Wordsworth’s boyhood to Macpherson’s Ossian, a book which whether it be completely fraudulent or not, was of capital importance in the beginnings of the romantic movement. Percy to his own mind knew the Middle Ages better than they knew themselves, and he took care to dress to advantage the rudeness and plainness of his originals. But it is more important to observe that when Percy’s reliques came to have their influence on writing his additions were imitated as much as the poems on which he grafted them. www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11327/83.html   (406 words)

www.jonathandewbre.com From the Percy Folio and a 17th century garland, although the legend of the friar has references stretching back to late medieval origins. There are three versions of this text, one of which even includes an ending where Robin and his men move the gallows to the glen and hang the sheriff himself there. From the Percy Folio and early 17th century broadsides. www.jonathandewbre.com /RobinHood/Robin.htm   (4012 words)

Benedict: Making the Modern Reader - Chapter Four: READING SYSTEMS IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Percy's three-volume Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) exemplifies the fashionable taste for primitive verse. The most vociferous critic of Percy's Reliques did not attack him for valorizing productions of mean literary status, however, but on the contrary for attempting to elevate this status by erroneous historical assumptions and poor editing. Ritson, as his argument with Percy shows, rejected elitist distinctions in literature and favored ballads as much as classical genres; at the end of his life, indeed, he enthusiastically supported the revolutionary government of France, even during the Terror, although he seems to have been growing deranged. www.pupress.princeton.edu /books/benedict/chapter_4.html   (11090 words)

Augustan Poetry Oliver Goldsmith (The Deserted Village), Thomas Warton, and even Thomas Percy (The Hermit of Warkworth), each conservative by and large and Classicist (Gray himself was a professor of Greek), took up the new poetry of solitude and loss. Therefore, when the Romantics emerged at the end of the 18th century, they were not assuming a radically new invention of the subjective self themselves, but merely formalizing what had gone before. Similarly, the later 18th century saw a ballad revival, with Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/augustan_poetry.html   (2986 words)

Americana Exchange - Rare Books, Book Auctions, Collecting Old Antique Books (information from volume 1) the kings library edited by professor gollancz the de la more press folios iv the percy folio from the text of dr. f. "of this edition of the percy folio of old english ballards and romances 320 copies.....no. 30." "The publishers and general editors of the kings library desire... My understanding from the statement regarding the number of sets is that there were 250 sets printed and authgraphed and that the set i have is set number 247. www.americanaexchange.com /NewAE/messageboard/message.asp?qid=917&subid=39   (622 words)

James Cummins Bookseller. Williams Shakespeare. A List. Summer 2005 Folio, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1909. Folio, London: Printed by and for the Editor, 1868. Its History from the Publication of the Quartos and Folios down to and Including the Publication of the Editions of Pope and Theobald. www.jamescumminsbookseller.com /shakespeare2.html   (8589 words)

George Glazer Gallery - Poetic Illustration - Pilgrim and Herdsman The contents were mainly drawn from The Percy Folio, a manuscript in mid-17th-century handwriting which is the most important source of English ballad literature and is now in the collection of the British Museum. Percy edited them and added some from other sources both ancient and recent. Thomas Stothard, a popular, prolific and successful English painter and book illustrator, was highly regarded by such contemporaries as Thomas Lawrence and Walter Scott. www.georgeglazer.com /prints/genre/rylandpilg.html   (317 words)

A Book of Old Ballads — Complete eBook From the Percy folio manuscript, amended by two or three others printed in fl-letter. Partly from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas by Percy as the original copy was defective and mutilated. Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas supplied by Thomas Percy. www.bookrags.com /ebooks/7535/92.html   (316 words)

The Squier of Low Degree, Percy Folio, Notes ABBREVIATIONS: P = the Percy Folio Manuscript; K = Kittredge readings suggested in M (1904); M = Mead edition (1904). P: fome, which is probably due to the fome of line 7; it was emended to see by Percy himself. The household officer responsible for the table arrangement; usually this was not the usher but the marshal (see Squire of Low Degree, lines 7-8). www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/eksldpnts.htm   (424 words)

The Marriage of Sir Gawain Pyle's portrayal of this impromptu performance before a tavern audience at the edge of Sherwood Forest likely corresponds to the sort of setting in which the compiler of the Percy Folio Manuscript heard the version of Marriage that he wrote down. As the oral sources of the meter would suggest, the poetry is most effective when read aloud; lines that "sound" clumsy when not vocalized take on life in spoken form. The Marriage of Sir Gawain survives, though mutilated, in the Percy Folio Manuscript, pp. beowulf.engl.uky.edu /~kiernan/gaw/marintro.htm   (756 words)

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