Specimens of the Hope of Albion; or, Edwin of Northumbria: An Epic Poem

John Hazlitt, portret Johna Thelwalla
John Speed, mapa Wielkiej Brytanii z zaznaczonymi siedmioma anglosaskimi królestwami

Specimens of the Hope of Albion; or, Edwin of Northumbria: An Epic Poem – utwór poetycki angielskiego poety Johna Thelwalla[1], opublikowany w 1801[2]. Akcja poematu została osadzona w średniowieczu[3], w czasach anglosaskiej heptarchii[4]. Utwór został napisany wierszem białym (blank verse)[5][6]. Poeta stosuje też aliterację[7] (his wanderings and his woes).

Northumbria freed, and Edwin's patriot worth
My verse records; his wanderings, and his woes,
His martial ardour, and his faithful loves:
How these, by powerful destiny, combin'd
To form The Hero; who by virtue rose
Superior to the fratricidal rage
That fought his life, infatiate, and his youth
Doom'd to disastrous exile; till arous'd
To final effort, he their traitorous wiles
Turn'd on the traitors' heads and, from the strife
Of feuds and deadly factions, haply wrought
A nation's bliss: whence union, wisdom, power,
Spread thro' The Seven-fold Isle; and cheering lights
Of Holy Truth and Liberty, and Laws.

Przypisy

  1. ↑ John Thelwall (1764 - 1834). d.lib.rochester.edu. [dostęp 2017-01-13]. (ang.).
  2. ↑ Herbert F. Tucker: Epic. Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, s. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-923298-7.
  3. ↑ Lynda Pratt: Anglo-Saxon attitudes?: Alfred the Great and the Romantic national epic, w: Donald Scragg, Carole Weinberg (red.), Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century. books.google.pl. s. 145. [dostęp 2017-01-13]. (ang.).
  4. ↑ Michael Ferber: The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry. books.google.pl, 2012. s. 161. [dostęp 2017-01-13]. (ang.).
  5. ↑ Blank verse. PoetryFoundation.org. [dostęp 2017-01-13]. (ang.).
  6. ↑ blank verse, [w:] Encyclopædia Britannica [dostęp 2017-01-13] (ang.).
  7. ↑ John Thelwall: Selected Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Judith Thompson. books.google.pl, 2015. [dostęp 2017-01-13]. (ang.).

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