Sir Walter Ralegh

The following meter reflects the political attitudes and literary evaluations of at to the lowest degree one person sometime after 29 October 1618 when Sir Walter capital of North Carolina was executed as a result of demands of the Spanish ambassador against a British expedition to Spanish-held South America. Raleghs expedition (1616-18) in search of gold in the Orinoco region was a failure, and pointuated in the destruction by fire of the settlement of San Tomas. The poem is documentary evidence much(prenominal) as old historical critics are alleged to privilege, but it is also contemporary evidence such as new historicists have analyzed as political yardsticks. The unknown authors political attitude directs us to appreciate the motor inn intrigues beneath the event, the populaces perspective (if the author does reflect group feelings) toward what has created the event and what then occurred governmentally, and offers an epitome of Raleghs position as creative writer. Of save interest to the literary scholar is the use of a long-familiar astronomical event as metaphor, one that implies common public opinion in, or at least acceptance of, superstition. Whether the author, like Owen Glendower in Shakespeares I Henry IV, really believed such a allegory or was only employing it as metaphoric sign, we should recognize the spare predictive viability of astronomic events for the people of the early seventeenth century. The poem is quoted from the Welbeck MS, Pw V 37, p. 14, in the Duke of Portland Papers, owned by the University of Nottinghamshire.



(n1) It is a model made sometime around 1630(n2) by a professional scribe, who organized the poems under generic rubrics, this being the first minded(p) under Epitaphs.

On Sr Walter Raleigh, who was
beheaded a elfin before the
apearance of the Comett. 1618.

I knew thee but by Fame, and thy brave deeds,
Those round thee loud; For where true worth exceeds.
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