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Sir Walter Raleigh - In Life and Legend (Hardcover)
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Sir Walter Raleigh - In Life and Legend (Hardcover)
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New biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing
on both his writing and legacy. Sir Walter Raleigh is a figure writ
large in popular imagination. Yet how can we understand this man
who was soldier, voyager, visionary, courtier, politician, poet,
historian, patriot and 'traitor'? We know some facts, and much can
be learned from Raleigh's prose and poetry about his ideas,
personality, feelings and values. Important new texts of his works
have recently been published: we now possess reliable versions of
his poems, his letters and his travel narratives. No biography of
Raleigh, however, can be complete without an assessment of his
posthumous reputation. Myths that accumulated around him tell us
something about the man himself, but far more about the perceptions
of his own and subsequent generations. Raleigh's talents as a
writer ensured his positive legacy, but the appropriation of his
legend for so many differing political uses has left us with a
complex picture. In this original and important new biography
Williams and Nicholls set this right.
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