
Joseph Ritson stated that the poem was “a dull performance and scarcely merits the care of a modern impression.”
Joseph Ritson stated that the poem was “a dull performance and scarcely merits the care of a modern impression.”
One of the reasons for the longevity of the Robin Hood legend is the fact that, in the original medieval ballads, his origins are not stated. He is simply there, in the […]
When you begin researching the original Robin Hood ballads, the names of a few late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians become familiar to you. The likes of Thomas Percy, an Irish Bishop […]