Raleigh Was Right

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"Raleigh Was Right" is a poem by William Carlos Williams, published in 1940 and composed in response to the Elizabethan exchange between Christopher Marlowe, in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", and Walter Raleigh, with "The Nymph's Reply". [1] [2] [3]

Horton Foote's Roots in a Parched Ground, the opening play of The Orphans' Home Cycle , takes its title from a line in this poem. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Kenneth E. Gadomski, "Williams' 'Raleigh Was Right'", The Explicator , Vol. 43, 1985. Excerpt here (pay site).
  2. ↑ "LitCharts". LitCharts. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  3. ↑ Duran, Angelica (2014). "Walter Raleigh, through John Milton, according to William Carlos Williams". William Carlos Williams Review. 31 (1): 15–31. doi:10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.31.1.0015. ISSN   0196-6286.
  4. ↑ Gerald C. Wood, Horton Foote: A Casebook (Taylor & Francis, 1998), ISBN   978-0815325444, p. 113. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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