...genuine sublime. He takes exception to Sir Philip Sidney's question that if the ballad is moving when "it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher Voice than rude Stile; which being so evil apparelled in the Dust and Cobweb of [an] uncivil Age, what would it work...

...historical progress from feudal barbarity to courtly civility: I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which, being so evil apparelled in...

...an example of the power of primitive lyric poetry: "Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style . . ."6 Although the evidence...

...where the Elizabethan aristocrat makes a remarkable admission: I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which, being so evil apparelled...

...Chase in 1595: "I never heard the olde song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart mooved more than with a Trumpet: and yet [it] is sung by some blinde Crouder [crowder, or manual laborer], with no rougher voice than rude stile."2 In 1711, the...

...in singing the lauds of the immortal God. Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never 5 heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which, being so evil apparelled...

...124 my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas [probably "Chevy Chase"] that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder [player of a "crowd", an old Celtic fiddle], with no rougher voice...

...within a volume already oddly associated with bardic tradition. "I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved, more than with a trumpet," reads the Philip Sidney epigraph of Ancient Ballads and Legends, "and yet it is sung but by some blinde...

...overdetermined. Sir Philip Sidney's praise of the poem ('I never heard the old song of [Chevy Chase] that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet') appears as an epigraph. Addison, who quotes Sidney, is mentioned in the headnote. The poem's hero is...

...Gattungssystem unberücksichtigt geblieben. Sir Philip Sidney bemerkt zwar in seiner Defence of Poetry: „I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rüde style".191 Andererseits wird...