In the history of English literature no other collection of poetry has been as influential as Bishop Percy's well-known Reliques. It was a major document in the romanticism of the late 18th century and it stood behind much of the most typical work of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott, to say nothing of scores of lesser poets. It was also an even tof enormous importance in the history of English folklore, for until modern times it remained the basic work for th study of early popular literature. Unabridged, unaltered republication of the 1886 edition. Edited with intro ductory material (including a life of Percy and an account of the Percy Manuscript, notes and glossary by Henry B. Wheatley.