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Shenstone's Billets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Irving L. Churchill
Irving L. Churchill*
Affiliation:
Bucknell University
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Among the Percy MSS (Folder 273) in the Harvard College Library is a collection of eighteen leaves of manuscript, of octavo size, loosely laid into board covers with a title on the outside printed in ink, presumably by Percy: “Shenstone's Billets.” This material is all in the handwriting of Shenstone, and consists of lists of songs and ballads from various published collections which he had examined, classified according to merit, with brief comments on individual poems in a few cases, and with longer connected remarks in the manner of letters in which he discussed the general principles that should govern Percy and himself in selecting and arranging the material for the Reliques.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 1937 , pp. 114 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1937

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References

page 114 note 1 Hans Hecht, “Thomas Percy und William Shenstone, ein Briefwechsel,” Quellen und Forschungen, ciii (1909), 53–55.

page 115 note 2 Ibid., p. 57.

page 115 note 3 Hecht, op. cit., p. 63.

page 115 note 4 Ibid., p. 66.

page 121 note 5 This word is doubtful; it was almost illegible.