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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Alison Horgan Using current scholarship on verse miscellanies to contextualize a comparison of Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748) and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), this article considers how the verse miscellany was used to different purposes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 76–96.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., namely its format, layout, and typography, that until the
late twentieth century were generally considered extra-textual?1
Our example is a canonical one: Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry (London, 1765). Obviously, this book must be central to dis...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 68–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... by Thomas Percy, whose 1765 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry influenced the Romantic cult of the bard. But in the essay On the Alliterative Metre, with- out Rhyme, in Pierce Plowman s Visions, Percy himself misread a thirteenth- century Middle English poem attributed to Robert of Gloucester, calling...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... a problem in the scholar-
ship. While Evan Evans’s Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
(1764) is seen as a bardic act of resistance, his English correspondent Thomas
Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) has been depicted as an appro-
priation at best and a colonization...
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“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
...-known
figures in ballad study, such as Robert Burns and Thomas Percy, with impor-
tant but less-studied precursors and contexts. These chapters usefully widen a
heretofore overly textual consideration of the eighteenth-century ballad revival
to include sociopolitical arenas (for the Scottish...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2010
... with William Thomson claiming Queen
Mary’s secretary, David Rizzio, as author of many of the classic Scottish songs,
while others — seeking no doubt to establish a more acceptably national but
still respectably antique source — plumped for King James I. For writers like
Thomas Percy and Sir Walter...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., on the other. Two of the most widely read miscellanies of the period, Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748) and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), exemplified very different editorial visions. While Dodsley's miscellany attempted to capture the poetic present...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Press, Yale University Press, or, in the case of Hor-
ace Walpole, the two in conjunction.1 Some of these editions, such as the
Oxford Frances Burney (now at sixteen volumes) and the Yale Thomas
Percy (now at nine), are still in progress.2 Others, such as the five-volume
Oxford Pope and the ten...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2006
...-
smith’s friend, Thomas Percy, in the notes to his edition of the Chinese
novel Hau Kiou Choaan, or, The Pleasing History (1761). Lien Chi declares
that “the Asiatics are much kinder to the fairer sex than you imagine”
(394), in response to Beau Tibbs’s fantasy of life in an Eastern seraglio...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
... differently. This essay draws on the predominantly unpublished journals and correspondence of English collector Elizabeth Seymour Percy, first Duchess of Northumberland (1716–76), to reveal the very different ways in which she described prints in each setting. For her, albums or portfolios of prints were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 81–97.
Published: 01 April 2008
... to Motherwell, April 1827, both cited in Clinton
Helyin’s Dylan’s Daemon Lover (London: Helter Skelter, 1999), 144.
32. Henry B. Wheatley, introduction to Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient
Poetry [1765], 3 vols. (1886 – 87; rep. New York: Dover, 1966) 1:xlvii – xlviii.
33. In England too...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
... in Somerset. She was born in Ilchester on 11
September 1674, but the family moved to Frome around 1692 when Rowe
was eighteen. Rowe spent her brief married life (1710–15) in London; but
after Thomas Rowe’s early death in 1715, she returned to Frome and re-
mained...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
... argued
that the line between fact and fi ction was, at least at fi rst glance, either
blurry or nonexistent. Percy G. Adams, who has given this topic more
attention than anyone, has shown just how diffi cult it was to detect “travel
lies,” and in a broad study devoted to the infl uence of travel...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... ended Jacobite threats. This environment guaranteed what to us
seems the too-willing suspension of disbelief in favor of James MacPherson’s
Ossian poems, of Thomas Percy’s Reliques, and of Thomas Chatterton’s forg-
eries. Folkenfl ik concludes with the irony that although myth had been dis-
counted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in May of that year before traveling on to Swit- zerland, composing his account of the battle in the third canto of Childe Harold s Pilgrimage (1816). Both Percy and Mary Shelley were profoundly concerned with how to understand the violence of revolution in the after- math of Waterloo. Their journey...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Sophie Thomas Brodey Inger Sigrun . Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility . ( New York : Routledge , 2008 ). Pp. xxiv + 274. 39 ills. $95 Jung Sandro . The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 April 2001
... example of Bob’s own scholarship is “The Ironies of Dryden’s
Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of Musique: Text and Contexts,” an article
that won the Percy Adams Prize in 1986. “The depth of interdisciplinary
expertise, the range of reference, the lucidity of argument...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
...-8014-3945-0
Beal, Joan C. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence’s ‘Grand
Repository of the English Language’ (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 239. $105.
isbn 0-19-823781-2
Beatty, John D., ed. Protestant Women’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... Johannes Trithemius, “In Praise of Scribes,” in Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age , ed. Evelyn B. Tribble and Anne Trubek (New York: Longman, 2003), 469 – 76; the quotation is from 470 – 72. 37. Goodrich, in “Translating Lady Mary Percy,” discusses the strategies of “self...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...” condition—as “ ‘ lack ’ ” (Aristotle), “ ‘supernumerary bone’ of Adam” (Bossuet), and “ ‘imperfect man’ ” or “ ‘incidental’ being” (St. Thomas)—before asking: “How can independence be recovered in a state of dependency?” 13 Drawing on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One ' s Own (1929), de Beauvoir's...
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