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anthology

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A collection of essays, poems, or plays usually sharing a similar subject, period of time, or place of origin. Among the most important anthologies in English literature is Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), which created a popular taste for traditional English and Scottish ballads. Important anthologies in the history of American culture are the six Eclectic Readers (1836–57), compiled by William Holmes McGuffey. These "McGuffey Readers" were enormously successful school textbooks (over 100 million copies sold in the 19th century). They included excerpts from the major English writers, chosen to communicate moral lessons to their readers.

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