Sir Walter Raleigh

The present sketch of Raleigh's life is the first attempt which has been made to portray his personal career disengaged from the general history of his time. To keep so full a life within bounds it has been necessary to pass rapidly over events of signal importance in which he took but a secondary part. The contents include: Youth, At Court, In Disgrace, Guiana, Cadie, Last Days of Elizabeth, The Trial at Winchester, In the Tower, The Second Voyage to Guiana, and The End. At the time of original publication Edmund Gosse was Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.