Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore)
Thomas Percy ( born April 13, 1729 Bridgnorth, England; † September 30, 1811 in Dromore ) was an English poet and Anglican Bishop of Dromore ( northern Ireland).
Life
Percy received his education in the years 1746-1753 at the University of Oxford. In 1782, was Percy Bishop of Dromore in Northern Ireland. In 1759 he married Anne Gutterridge, who died in 1806.
Percy was a friend of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton and Thomas Warton.
During his time as pastor of Easton Maudit 1756 Percy met a friend's house on a later named after him, Percy Folio MS named collection of manuscripts of the Middle Ages, which had been recorded in 1650 following a verbal presentation in Lancashire and Cheshire. Since it was used in the house for kindling the fireplace, already missing parts. By binding the manuscript further sections were lost. Among the texts were preserved medieval Arthusromanzen 191, poems of the 16th and 17th century and street songs as well as popular and chivalrous adventure stories and ballads about Robin Hood. Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone encouraged Percy to publish the collection, which, after a first edition from 1765 ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Cosisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other Pieces of our Earlier Poets ( chiefly of the Lyric Child) togehter with some few of later date, London ) until 1867/68 after many years of Percy's edits and other agents is completed. This, however, was the basis for FJ Childs collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882-1898 ).
Through his lifelong collection of English ballads Percy not only created the basis for the coming after him systematic literary scholars, but also influenced the German lyrics.
In 1761, Percy translated he published Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, a work on the history of China from the Portuguese, in 1763. In 1765 followed Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, in 1770 Northern Antiquities, the translation of the history of Denmark by Henri Mallet, 1771 The Hermit of Warkworth.