Enchanted Ground: The Study of Medieval Romance in the Eighteenth CenturyA&C Black, 13. jan. 2014 - 249 sider The beginnings of modern literary scholarship in Britain are studied in this volume, which traces the emergence between about 1760 and 1810 in the work of Richard Hurd, Thomas Percy, Thomas Warton, Joseph Ritson, George Ellis, and Sir Walter Scott of a serious scholarly approach to the English metrical romances of the middle ages. These scholars, however, were not concerned solely with the rediscovery and editing of the original texts which two centuries of growing antiquarian research had ignored. Almost without exception men of letters themselves, they desired also to recover the 'world of fine fabling' in which the classical temper of the preceding age had preferred the virtues of 'good sense', and they consciously put their discoveries to the service of modern poetry, or urged that they should be so used. The consequences of this were far-reaching, and as he considers in detail the individual achievements of his principal subjects Dr Johnston does not neglect to bring out the nature and importance of the contributions they made to the general culture and literature of their own day and of the nineteenth century. |
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RICHARD HURD | 60 |
III THOMAS PERCY | 75 |
IV THOMAS WARTON | 100 |
V JOSEPH RITSON | 120 |
VI GEORGE ELLIS | 148 |
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Addison adventures ancient antiquary antiquity Arthur Arthurian Auchinleck ballads Bevis Celtic Chaucer chivalry classical collection copy Critical Degare delight Douce Douce's Dryden E. K. Chambers early Edinburgh edition eighteenth century Ellis abstract Ellis's enchanters England English Poetry epic Essays fabling Faerie Queene fiction Folio Gawain Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth George Ellis Gothic Guy of Warwick Harley Hurd ibid imagination interest John King Arthur King Horn knights language later Letters literary literature Malory manners manuscript medieval romances Metrical Romanceës 1802 metrical romances middle ages Milton minstrels modern Morte Darthur narrative Norman notes novel origin of romance Oxford Percy Percy Folio Percy-Warton Percy's poem poet poetical Preface printed prose reader reading Reliques Review Richard Ritson Saxon scholars scholarship Scott seventeenth century Shakespeare Sir Tristrem Southey Specimens of Romances Spenser stories taste texts theory Thomas Warton translation Valentine and Orson Welsh writing wrote