Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh’s Speech from the Scaffold:
A Translation of the 1619 Dutch Edition, and
Comparison with English Texts
by John Parker and Carol A. Johnson
ISBN 0-9601798-5-2
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“Hugh de Selincourt, one of Raleigh’s many biographers, has called him ‘the most romantic figure of the most romantic age in the annals of English history.’ It is hard to dispute that characterization. David Quinn, another biographer of Raleigh, calls him ‘a representative figure, an originating rather than dominating one … in the history of the beginning of British overseas enterprise.’ An originator of such an empire places Raleigh as a foundation stone in what he hoped would become ‘an English nation’ in America. Entrepreneur, politician, poet, historian, explorer, colonizer, by that fateful day in 1618 Raleigh had lived many lives and they converged to bring him to a spectacular end.”Opening paragraph of the Introduction.
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