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| 10/29/1618 |
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The Last Elizabethan
On this day in 1618, English adventurer, courtier, soldier, historian and poet, Sir Walter Ralegh (also Raleigh) was executed. "The last Elizabethan" lived and died with flair, and on the main stage. To his executioner, who would moments later thrown down his cloak for Sir Walter to kneel, he inquired if he might see the axe, and then declared it "a sharp medicine." |
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"Sir Walter Ralegh to his Son"
Features audio recordings of Henri Cole, David Ferry, and Linda Gregerson reading Ralegh's sonnet-riddle addressed to his son. An accompanying article examines the style and meter of the verse, the poet's ill-fated voyage to procure Guianan gold to secure a pardon from King James, and Ralegh's place among the poets of his age: "During his lifetime, Sir Walter Ralegh was reckoned one of the notable poets of his age. No mean age. Spenser, Campion, Whitney, Shakespeare, Sidney, Sidney (sister to the brother), Marlowe, Lanyer, Donne, and Jonson: all were his contemporaries; all, or all the men, have prompted all-but-suffocating reverence ever since. Very little remains to help us judge the grounds of Ralegh's contemporary reputation. . . ." |  |
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The TinL masthead features photography by
Natasha D'Schommer
, and the book art featured is by Jim Rosenau.
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