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Percy Society


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Founded 1840 by T. C. Croker, Dyce, Halliwell‐Phillipps, and J. P. Collier, for the purpose of publishing old English lyrics and ballads. It was named in honour of T. Percy.

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Percy Society
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 35 words
Percy Society, the
in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3) Length: 33 words
Percy Society (1840–52)
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