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Raleigh: A Victorian Portrait of an Elizabethan Explorer, Courtier, Poet, and Prisoner in the Age of Discovery
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| Edmund Gosse's Raleigh is a compact yet richly informed portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh as poet, courtier, soldier, colonizer, and tragic political actor. Written in the lucid, evaluative manner of late-Victorian literary biography, it combines narrative compression with critical judgment, placing Raleigh's verse, prose, and History of the World within the larger energies of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age. Gosse treats Raleigh not merely as an adventurer, but as a representative figure of Renaissance ambition and instability. Gosse, himself a poet, critic, and influential man of letters, was especially equipped to interpret Raleigh's double career in action and authorship. His lifelong immersion in English literary history, his sensitivity to style, and his Victorian concern with character all shape the book. Writing when national literary traditions were being codified for a broad educated public, Gosse sought to recover Raleigh's intellectual distinction as well as his romantic legend. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Elizabethan literature, imperial beginnings, and the making of literary reputation. Though modern scholarship has complicated some of its assumptions, Gosse's Raleigh remains valuable for its elegance, clarity, and historically revealing vision of one of England's most arresting Renaissance lives. |
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