...action, to own up to, but still he had in his Defence of Poesie (1595) to confess (his word) that he "never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." And for John Dryden, well-schooled neoclassical poet and critic, the...

...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 I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice...

...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 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...

...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 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...

...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...

...Gattungssystem unberücksichtigt geblieben. Sir Philip Sidney bemerkt zwar in seiner Defence of Poetry: „I never 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...

...(1580). Sidney says of the Ballad of Chevy Chase: 'Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never 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 [fiddler], with no rougher...

...poetry, whether heroic or lyrical, draws Sidney's highest, most sustained praise.66 He confesses that he 'never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet,' and he praises the feasts he attended in Hungary, with their 'songs...