A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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Hales on ** The Revival of Ballad Poetry in the Eighteenth Century." Digitized by LjOOQIC 'Percy and the ballads. 291 Percy's additions to fragmentary pieces are full of sentimentalisniy affectation, and the spurious poetic diction of his age. An experienced ballad amateur can readily separate, in most cases, the genuine por- tions from the insertions. But it is unfair to try Percy by modern editorial canons. That sacredness which is now imputed to the ipsissima verba of an ancient piece of pop...ular literature would have been unintelligible to men of that generation, who regarded such things as trifles at best, and mostly as barbarous trifles — something like wampum belts, or nose-rings, or antique ornaments in the gaUt barbare et charmani des bijoux gotks, Percy's readers did not want torsos and scraps; to present them with acephalous or bob- tailed ballads — ^with cetera desunt and constellations of asterisks — like the manuscript in Prior's poem, the conclusion of which was eaten by the rats — would have been mere pedantry.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Hales on ** The Revival of Ballad Poetry in the Eighteenth Century." Digitized by LjOOQIC 'Percy and the ballads. 291 Percy's additions to fragmentary pieces are full of sentimentalisniy affectation, and the spurious poetic diction of his age. An experienced ballad amateur can readily separate, in most cases, the genuine por- tions from the insertions. But it is unfair to try Percy by modern editorial canons. That sacredness which is now imputed to the ipsissima verba of an ancient piece of pop...ular literature would have been unintelligible to men of that generation, who regarded such things as trifles at best, and mostly as barbarous trifles — something like wampum belts, or nose-rings, or antique ornaments in the gaUt barbare et charmani des bijoux gotks, Percy's readers did not want torsos and scraps; to present them with acephalous or bob- tailed ballads — ^with cetera desunt and constellations of asterisks — like the manuscript in Prior's poem, the conclusion of which was eaten by the rats — would have been mere pedantry.
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