Thomas Percy

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BIOGRAPHIES

Anderson, W. E. K., ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Robert Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988, 344 p.

A collection of Percy's correspondence with Robert Anderson, a friend during Percy's later years.

Brooks, Cleanth, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Richard Farmer. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1946, 218 p.

A collection of letters between Percy and the scholar and antiquarian Richard Farmer.

Davis, Bertram H. Thomas Percy: A Scholar-Cleric in the Age of Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, 361 p.

Book-length biography of Percy organized into chapters based on significant professional periods in Percy's life.

Falconer, A. F., ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1954, 186 p.

The correspondence between Percy and Sir David Dalrymple, who assisted Percy in the collection of several Scottish poems which were included in the Reliques.

Falconer, A. F., ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & George Paton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, 198 p.

The correspondence between Percy and George Paton involving the collection of ballads and poems for a proposed fourth edition of Reliques and a separate publication on Scottish ballads—neither of which were published.

Lewis, Aneirin, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Evan Evans. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1957, 213 p.

A collection of letters between Percy and Evan Evans that provides insight into the literary and antiquarian activities in England and Wales between 1761 and 1776.

Robinson, M. G. and Leah Dennis, eds. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Thomas Warton. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1951, 189 p.

The correspondence between Percy and poet and literary historian Thomas Warton.

Tillotson, Arthur, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1944, 302 p.

Selections from the thirty-year correspondence between Percy and Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone.

CRITICISM

Beal, Peter. “Bishop Percy's Notes on A Voyage to Abyssinia.” In Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society 16 (1975): 39-49.

Offers an account of Percy's annotations to Samuel Johnson's translation of Jeronymo Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia.

Brooks, Cleanth. “Thomas Percy, Don Quixote, and Don Bowle.” In Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, edited by René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 247-61.

Presents an analysis of Percy's interest in Spanish language and literature, concentrating on his interest in translating a new edition of Don Quixote.

Davis, Bertram H. “Johnson's 1764 Visit to Percy.” In Johnson After Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, pp. 25-41.

An account of Samuel Johnson's visit to Easton Maudit, Percy's vicarage; it is believed that Johnson wrote the preface to Percy's Reliques during this time.

Donatelli, Joseph M. P. “The Medieval Fictions of Thomas Warton and Thomas Percy.” In University of Toronto Quarterly 60, No. 4 (Summer 1991): 435-51.

Compares Percy's Reliques with Warton's History of English Poetry as two preeminent works of scholarship that catered to an eighteenth-century preoccupation with the Middle Ages.

Groom, Nick. “Fragments, Reliques, & MSS: Chatterton and Percy.” In Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, edited by Groom. Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 188-209.

Discusses the impact of Percy's Reliques on Thomas Chatterton and the controversy surrounding literary antiquarians in the eighteenth century.

Mahoney, John L. “Some Antiquarian and Literary Influences of Percy's Reliques.” In College Language Association Journal 7, No. 3 (1964): 240-46.

Offers an account of the affect of Percy's Reliques on the collection, preservation, and editing of English minstrelsy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Ringler, Jr., William A. “Bishop Percy's Quarto Manuscript (British Museum MS Additional 34064) and Nicholas Breton.” In Philological Quarterly 54, No. 1 (Winter 1975): 26-39.

A comparison of three poems Percy included in his Reliques, tracing their origins to an older manuscript of Elizabethan poetry.

Smith, Margaret M. “Thomas Percy, William Shenstone, Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, and the Reliques.” In Bodleian Library Record 12, No. 6 (April 1988): 471-77.

Brief outline of the correspondence between Percy and Shenstone that traces their collaboration on Reliques and Five Pieces of Runic Poetry.

Sutherland, Kathryn. “The Native Poet: The Influence of Percy's Minstrel from Beattie to Wordsworth.” In Review of English Studies 33, No. 132 (November 1982): 414-33.

Examines the impact of Percy's presentation of the medieval minstrel as native poet and historian on scholars, antiquarians, and poets of his time.

Additional coverage of Percy's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 104.

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