Sir Walter Raleigh, Renaissance English courtier, explorer, and poet. Biography, bibliography, essays, and resources.

Sir Walter Raleigh. 1554 -1618. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of Guiana, 1595 Introductory Note Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in ...

The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh Poetry In Commendation of The Steel Glass The Excuse An Epitaph Upon The Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney A Vision Upon This Conceit of The Fairy Queen. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son The Silent Lover The Lie On the Life of Man The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage As You Came from the Holy Land Even Such Is Time Praised be Diana's Fair ...

The Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Ralegh In 1590, Flemish engraver and publisher Theodor de Bry produced an elaborate and popular folio edition of Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Hariot's Report had two years before been printed in quarto; for the 1590 folio some thirty of De Bry's engravings were included, all adapted from the ...

Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh), born near East Budleigh, East Devon, South-West England, U.K. Summary of his life (1552 - 1618), with numerous links.

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Sir Walter 'the Unfortunate' Raleigh (1552-1618) O eloquent, just and mightie Death, whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded. Sir Walter Raleigh The History of the World SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO LADY ELIZABETH RALEIGH I am but dust... At his execution in 1618 in the Tower of London, Sir Walter Raleigh asked to see the axe that was to behead him and said, This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a ...

Literature Music Visual Arts Other British Authors Musical Genres Smart-Ass Guide to Art Gallimaufry Name Database Loops Renderings About Us Mp3s Photos Sir Walter 'the Unfortunate' Raleigh (1552-1618) Walter Raleigh (or perhaps Ralegh) was born in the farmhouse of Hayes near Budleigh Salterton Bay1. He apparently did nothing of interest until 1580, when he tried to make up for his slow start by ...

An index of poems by Sir Walter Raleigh.

More than a friend to Elizabeth I, and courageous explorer of the New World, Sir Walter Raleigh had a dark side, and lived on the edge much of the time, until his beheading by an angry Crown in 1618.