robin hood fragment fragments r s von southey robert caroline (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. xx, 248 p. 20 cm. Purple cloth hardcover with faded spine, torn spine ends, bumped corners. Old ex library with labels on front endpapers. Small binder's stamp on rear pastedown. Ink stamp and thumbing on p. 73. Caroline Bowles's first meeting with her future husband, Robert Southey, in 1820, led to the idea of a jointly-written epic poem about Robin Hood. Unfortunately, they only produced this fragment, published after Southey's death. From the beginning, Caroline had great difficulty with the metre Southey chose; "It is to me just like attempting to drive a tilbury in a tram-road", she wrote. Fortunately, the other poems in this volume were more successful.