#Walter Raleigh

[badwolf-gallagher88]

Yes, having a crush on a fictional character is bad. But have you ever had a crush on a fictionalised version of a vaguely problematic historical figure??

[miscreantmermaid]

I love old poetry beef. In 1599, Christopher Marlowe wrote a poem in which a shepherd tries to woo a nymph with various promises. In 1600, Walter Raleigh wrote poem called "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", which begins:

"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love."

[ancientoriginses]

La “Colonia Perdida” de Roanoke, que desapareció sin dejar rastro a finales del siglo XVI, es uno de los misterios perdurables de los Estados Unidos. Es posible que una nueva excavación haya encontrado la respuesta.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

WALTER RALEIGH

d. 29 October 1618

Walter Raleigh was an English soldier and explorer, a well-known figure during Queen Elizabeth I's reign, and helped defend England against the Spanish Armada.

In 1591, he secretly married Elizabeth I’s lady-in-waiting, Elizabeth Throckmorton. After the queen died, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London under King James I for treason for being involved in a plot against the king. During the search of El Dorado in 1616, his men ransacked a Spanish outpost which was against the terms of his pardon. When he returned to England, he was arrested and executed in Westminster. He was shown the axe that would be used to behead him and he stated that the axe was ‘a Physician for all diseases and miseries.’ His head was embalmed and presented to his wife, his body was laid to rest in St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Lady Raleigh kept his head in a velvet bag until her death 29 years later. His head was removed and was interred with his body. His death was seen as ‘unjust’.

#sirwalterraleigh#walterraleigh

[onheirpodcast]

I’m listening to the new episode, and can I just say that I love that y’all both refer to Sir Walter Raleigh as “the potato man”? As an American (and someone who grew up in Virginia) I remember learning about him in elementary Virginia history and singing songs about how he “went to queen Elizabeth many long years ago” asking to form a colony. I’ve never heard of him as the “potato man before!

I (Jessica) mention in the same episode that we learn largely Scottish domestic history in school in Scotland so I didn’t learn about him or anything about the American continent (except a tiny part about how the US joined WW2). My knowledge of Walter Raleigh is largely from Horrible Histories books and period TV shows. In particular, the episode of Blackadder where he features. In that episode, and probably more generally, he is presented as the guy who brought potatoes over from the “new world.” It’s what he’s most famous for, even though I’m not sure if it’s true, because we like potatoes. So that’s why Grace will have called him the potato man. I didn’t, I just sarcastically said I’m sure he’d be thrilled to know there are people who think of him as the potato man. I just want to make that clear in case the ghost of Walter Raleigh comes back and is looking for blood hahaha.

[gabityaby]

Finally i found a legitimate source that acknowledges my suspicions for the inherent homo-eroticism of this scene in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

So i was browsing this compilation of studies of films touching the subject of Queen Elizabeth I and when it came to Kapur's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" it basically gave an overall character almost completly separated from her real life inspiration, however that's not the point. When i came upon the bath scene in every single one of my watches of this film it always struck me as a rather too intimate moment between two people. I mean i know for a fact that Queen Elizabeth was very much concious of her body, especially in her old age (which the film tries to convey with an aging-like-wine Blanchett, unconvincing), and nobles in real life too did mind their modesty while being naked with their servants during the bath.

Which is why they wore robes to protect their nakedness, so you would imagine logically that Queen Elizabeth would be very much perfunctory and only sometimes a bit familiar with her most trusted servants, the Ladies of the Bedchamber, in a friendly way, but then comes Kapur's Elizabeth with Abby Cornish's Bess Throckmorton and as the compilation i was reading, writ by the amazing Bethany Latham, Bess is the femenine face Elizabeth cannot show the world but still follows her around and still is a part of her heart, that by itself is very much auto-erotic but then cometh this scene.

By itself from a first look it even looks like a marital honeymoon bed in Caribe, and then comes the theme of the intimacy that comes from Bess being an aspect of Elizabeth but mostly the vunerability she exudes at baring her body to Bess, almost like how lovers do in the bed. It's best explained in the words of miss Bethany:

"One such scene involves Elizabeth lounging in her huge candlelit bath, all alone except for her ever-present Bess, who stands behind her outside the tub, stroking her hair, her face, her shoulders. The scene is charged with homo-eroticism -- Elizabeth wears nothing but a transparent wet chemise as her lady-in-waiting pets her and speak in soft tones in her ear. As one review put it, "Bess holds the queenly hand, caresses the royal head and keeps the imperial body intimate company, suggesting that Elizabeth abandoned the metaphoric sword but not the chalice". At the same time, however, the scene displays a strong sence of autoeroticism; since Bess represents Elizabeth's sensual side, it is almost as if Elizabeth touches herself. Their topic of discussion is, of course, Raleigh, since he's the cause this morass of sexual frustration. Elizabeth is slightly unkind and not altogether correct when she warns Bess that "he likes you because he wants my favour. You do realize that?". In the metaphorical realm, Raleigh pursues Elizabeth's body natural in order to gain what he wants from the power her body politic possesses, but his pursuit of Bess is simply literal -- he wants her, romantically and physically. In more gentle and wistful tone, Elizabeth goes on to tell Bess that she envies her, for "you are free to have what i cannot have. You're my adventurer" "

[ballumville]

'But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.' 🔥 Walter Raleigh

[menuthegathering]

Sacred Nectar {1}{W}

Sorcery

You gain 4 life.

“Over the silver mountains, Where spring the nectar fountains, There will I kiss The bowl of bliss; And drink my everlasting fill… .” —Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Pilgrimage”

Illustrated by Janine Johnston

2003

[dipnotski]

Walter Raleigh – Shakespeare’in Hayatı (2024)

Dünya edebiyatının en önemli isimlerinden biri olan Shakespeare, hiç şüphe yok ki tüm zamanların en büyük ozanıdır. İnsanlık üzerine diğer tüm yazarlardan daha fazla şey söylemiş, üslup güzelliği konusunda da hiç kimse onunla yarışamamıştır. Hayatına ve yaşadığı döneme dair kaynaklara ulaşımın zorluğu da Shakespeare’i edebiyat tarihinde neredeyse mitolojik bir karakter haline getirmiştir. Walter…

[poemoftheday]

Poem of the Day 8 August 2024

Prais'd be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light BY Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552 - 1618)

Prais'd be Diana's fair and harmless light;

Prais'd be the dews wherewith she moists the ground;

Prais'd be her beams, the glory of the night;

Prais'd be her power by which all powers abound.

Prais'd be her nymphs with whom she decks the woods,

Prais'd be her knights in whom true honour lives;

Prais'd be that force by which she moves the floods;

Let that Diana shine which all these gives.

In heaven queen she is among the spheres;

In aye she mistress-like makes all things pure;

Eternity in her oft change she bears;

She beauty is; by her the fair endure.

Time wears her not: she doth his chariot guide;

Mortality below her orb is plac'd;

By her the virtue of the stars down slide;

In her is virtue's perfect image cast.

A knowledge pure it is her worth to know:

With Circes let them dwell that think not so.

[whispersofsilence]

“The Nymph’s Retort to the Shepherd”

The world’s indeed outraced by time,  Still you pursue me like a mime.  ‘Tis not nature to select, reject?  Yet thyself you insist to project.    ‘Tis the orb’s last image in the fountain,  Yet perhaps not; we never are certain.  ‘Till then, is it not wise to be free–  No binds to make me yield and agree?    If I were to say yes now, I wonder,  What further offers can thy mind ponder?  I have opened mine eyes to thy views,  Perhaps ‘tis thy turn– make thine of use.    We both are but new grown saplings, yes,  Better ‘tis then we have time excess.  If the spell that hold thou smitten expires,  Thenceforth I’ll await ‘nother who aspires.    Try not to please me with pleasures,  I  won’t be moved by these treasures.  Why don’t you try with another dove,  To make me come with thee, be thy love.    ‘Tis true ‘till we try we won’t know,  Yet I’ll have to make your heart show,  The one gift lacking to make me move,  To come live with thee and be thy love.

[juliehowlin]

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote romantic poetry. His poems included “The Ocean’s Love to Cynthia” and "Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk." There’s speculation that “Cynthia” was a pseudonym for Queen Elizabeth I.

10 things you might not know about Sir Walter Raleigh:

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy deathday to sir Walter Raleigh, who died because three witches told him he could be king if he really, really wanted it

[explodedmaine]

stop i love roanoke because the first time around sir Francis Drake literally DROPPED IN AND they were like "walter is that you?" and he was like "NO I'M YOUR DUDE FRANCIS GET IN HOMIES YO HO HO" and it's so hilarious. Like

I have not stopped thinking about it!!!

[mydadlistenstothis]

New podcast episode is up! This week, we're booking another white knuckle flight as we conclude our coverage of Bob Newhart...although maybe we should've taken the train.

[uispeccoll]

Happy #MiniatureMonday!

In 1983, Roger Middleton and the London Midsummer Press published Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh’s poem, “Wishes of an Elderly Man at a Garden Party, June 1914” for the first time in miniature book format. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet, author and Cambridge Apostle, best known for his position as Oxford’s first professor of English literature and many scholarly essays. 

The poem reads in full:

I WISH I loved the Human Race;

I wish I loved its silly face;

I wish I loved the way it walks;

I wish I loved the way it talks;

And when I'm introduced to one

I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Smith Miniatures Collection   PN1435 .W81 1983

--M Clark, Instruction Graduate Assistant