The collection opens with The Pleasures of Memory, the long poem in two parts that begins with a return to an obscure native village and traces how memory colours a whole life. Around it gather an epistle to a friend, an ode to superstition, verses for the actress Sarah Siddons, lines to an old oak, a sailor’s homecoming and fragments translated from Euripides.
Rogers was a celebrated poet and host of the Regency literary world, and this is his graceful, reflective verse. Download the free EPUB.