“If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme”
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Poet Sir Walter Ralegh 1552–1618
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Renaissance
Subjects Arts & Sciences
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Before his execution for treason, Sir Walter Ralegh won fame as an explorer of the New World — both for voyages to Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina (whose capital is named after him), and to Venezuela in search of El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Also a scholar and a gifted lyric poet, Ralegh brought glory to Elizabethan England along with the potatoes and tobacco he is said to have introduced there.
Poems by Sir Walter Ralegh
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Renaissance
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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