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The Reliques is a collection of ballads, songs, romances and historical poetry, annotated with Percy's literary-antiquarian observations. It is a seminal text in English literature, one that profoundly influenced writers from Thomas Chatterton to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats and the Pre-Raphaelites. Until now, the first edition has not been available to scholars of the eighteenth century and... Read more
Volume 1: New Introduction by Nick Groom, Cancellanda from the first edition, Selection of proofsheets, Percy's original preface, New bibliography, Volume 2: Glossary of obsolete and Scottish words used in Volume I, Ballads, Glossary, Volume 3: Ballads, Glossary
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Thomas Percy, Introduction by Nick Groom
'These are handsome volumes to possess, and an indispensable addition to any library.' - Landeg White - Times Literary Supplement
'...a valuable reprint of the original Reliques.' - Folk Music Journal
'[This new edition] should restore Reliques to their rightful place in Romantic criticism after a long period in which the references to Percy have become somewhat formal and perfunctory.' - Landeg White - Times Literary Supplement
'This reprint of Percy's Reliques, with Nick Groom's scholarly work - which extends to a valuable appendix to Volume 3 on the late changes Percy made in and after the first edition - will be an invaluable tool in considering the stages by which the medieval was incorporated into the structures of national culture and ideology.' - Stephen Knight - Cardiff University
