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Our Strange DNA, Sir Walter Raleigh’s Last Poem, and How the Hammond Took Over America
Now on to the really important stuff: Sir Walter Raleigh’s last poem is pretty darn good: “Though it’s not a 21st-century thing to say, Sir Walter Raleigh was a man of virtue. Unlike his ...
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THE LYRIC POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.; Another View of Prof. Walter Raleigh's Introduction to Them -- Influences That Affected Blake's Genius.*
Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Lewis Nathaniel Chase. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this ...
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh), explorer, courtier, writer and poet, is buried in the chancel of St Margaret's Church Westminster and there is a memorial tablet and stained glass window to him there.
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El Dorado
English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to Guiana to search ... So where is this lost city of gold? In his 1849 poem "El Dorado," writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an eerie and eloquent ...