Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Subtitle: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets. Volume 3
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: April 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781402173790
Subjects: poetry,songs,reliques,old heroic ballads,earlier poets,ancient English poetry; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / General
First sentence: THE third volume being chiefly devoted to romantic subjects, may not be improperly introduced with a few slight strictures on the old Metrical Romances: a subject the more worthy attention, as it seems not to have been known to such as have written on the nature and origin of books of chivalry, that the first compositions of this kind were in verse, and usually sung to the harp.