Author:Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)

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Walter Raleigh
(c. 1552/1554 – 1618)

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English writer, poet, spy, and explorer

Note that many alternate spellings of his surname exist, including Rawley, Ralegh, and Rawleigh; although "Raleigh" appears most commonly today, he himself used that spelling only once. His most consistent preference was for "Ralegh".

Works

The works of Sir Walter Ralegh (1751) vol 1, vol 2
Brief and True Report of Virginia (1588)
The Discoverie of the Empire of Guiana (1596) IA
A Discourse of the Invention of shipps (1610)
The Historie of the World (1614) (transcription project)
A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Isles of the Açores this last Sommer, betwixt the Revenge, one of her Majesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine
The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (1628) IA
Instructions to his Son, and to Posterity (published 1632) (external scan)
The Prince, or Maxims of State (1642) IA
Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (1650) IA
Sir Walter Raleigh's sceptick (1651)
The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, ed. by Robert H. Schomburgk (1848) (external scan)
"His Last Words on the Scaffold" in The World's Famous Orations, Volume 3 (1906)

Poetry

"A Vision upon the Fairy Queen" (1590)
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (1600)
"The Pilgrimage"
"Marrow of Historie"
"Speculations"
"Prerogative of Parliaments in England"
"Inscription on Raleigh's Bible"
"Poems That Every Child Should Know/The Lye"
"As you came from the Holy Land"
"Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son"

Works about Raleigh

The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, knt (1806), by Arthur Cayley, in 2 vols.
"The Sweet Trinity", anonymous ballad
"Ralegh, Walter (1552?-1618)," by John Knox Laughton in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Ralegh, Walter," by Isa Carrington Cabell in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
"Raleigh, Sir Walter," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Raleigh, Sir Walter," by David Hannay in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Raleigh, Sir Walter," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Raleigh, Sir Walter" in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography Volume 1, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, (1915)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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