In the middle watch of a summer night on the Hudson Highlands below Cro’ Nest, a fay who has loved a mortal maiden is tried by the fairy court and sent on two perilous quests through water and sky to wash his wings clean. Shorter pieces follow, including the ode on Niagara, songs, album verses and extracts from an unfinished poem.
A fanciful early attempt to give American landscape its own fairy lore, by a New York poet who died at twenty-five. Download the free EPUB.