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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

(1887) “The Unfathomable Sea” In 1887 Stevenson published ‘To N.V. de G.S.: The Unfathomable Sea’. THE unfathomable sea, and time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us;...

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Sara Jane Lippincott, “Grace Greenwood” (1823–1904)

Stories from Famous Ballads; For Children. (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1885), p. 109-117. GoogleBooks Continue reading →

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Aubrey Thomas De Vere (circa 1817-1902)

1884 ‘Robert Bruces’s Heart’; or, ‘The Last of the Crusaders’ Aubrey Thomas De Vere, an Irish poet greatly influenced by Coleridge, also depicts Spens as a hero in this poem. De Vere refers to Spens as...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

1839 ‘The Wreck of Hesperus’ Most likely the first afterlife work to occur outside of Britain, this poem was originally titled, ‘The Ballad of Schooner Hesperus’. This ballad features moon imagery as...

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David MacBeth Moir (1798-1851)

1852 (posthumous) ‘The Old Seaport (Culross, Perthshire)’ Poets of the Victorian period had little doubt as to Spen’s heroism. They were the first poets to draw on this aspect of the ballad. In, ‘The...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

1824 (posthumous) ‘The Triumph of Life’ In ‘The Triumph of Life’ the image of the new moon foreshadows an impending storm. Perhaps this image came from ‘Spens’ or indirectly through Coleridge, whose...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

(1798) ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ Coleridge read Percy’s Reliques and was ‘deeply interested in the Englishand Scottish popular ballads’ (Lowes, The Road to Xanadu). The influence of these...

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W. Scott (1802)

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens The king sits in Dumfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; “O whare will I get a skeely skippe, “To sail this new ship of mine?” O up and spake an eldern knight,...

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D. Herd (1769)

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence The king he sits in Dumferling, Drinking the blude reid wine: ’0 where will I get a gude sailor, That ‘sail the ships o mine? ‘ Up then started a yallow-haird man, Just...

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Percy (1765)

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence The king sits in Dumferling toune, Drinking the blude-reid wine: ‘O whar will I get guid sailor, To sail this schip of mine?’ Up and spak an eldern knicht, Sat at the...

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