Edmund Gosse’s short life of Raleigh, written for a literary biography series, approaches its subject primarily as a writer — the poet of The Nymph’s Reply, the historian of The History of the World, and one of the most gifted prose stylists of the Elizabethan age. Gosse assesses Raleigh’s place in English literature alongside the broader outline of his adventurous career.
Where longer biographies focus on Raleigh’s explorations and political downfall, Gosse concentrates on what survives of Raleigh’s mind on the page. Download the free EPUB for this elegant literary portrait of one of Elizabethan England’s most versatile talents.