Roderick the Last of the Goths is an 1814 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem lie in Southey's wanting to write a poem describing...
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Roderic (redirect from Don Roderick)
known as "the last king of the Goths". He is actually an extremely obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to...
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Little Boys Made Of?" is a nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain...
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The Urth of the New Sun Siverian, one of the characters in Roderick the Last of the Goths, an 1814 epic poem by Robert Southey Severian, anything of or...
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Robert Southey (category Translators of the Poetic Edda)
Lord Viscount Nelson (1813) Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814) Journal of a tour in the Netherlands in the autumn of 1815 (1902) Sir Thomas Malory's...
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the travels of Childe Harold (1812–1818) Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1813) Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey (1814) The Lord of...
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Southey in Roderick, the Last of the Goths (1814). The American writer Washington Irving retells the legends in his 1835 Legends of the Conquest of Spain,...
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Caroline Anne Southey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
Southey said, "You have the eye, the ear, and the heart of a poetess..." (Dowden, p. 10). Alfred H. Miles in the first decade of the last century noted that...
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century BC Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey: reign of Roderic, 8th century Hispania King Alfred by John Fitchett: reign of Alfred the Great...
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Acts. He responded with a dedicated copy of the 1821 French translation of his Roderick the Last of the Goths. Historic England Retrieved 11 November 2017...
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writing the work Roderick the Last of the Goths. This effort continued through 1808, and he was able to complete 3,000 lines of the poem. However, he was...
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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable...
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Roderick, the Last of the Goths William Wordsworth, The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem Francis Scott Key, "The Battle of Fort McHenry"...
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Henry Herbert Southey (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
English physician. The son of Robert Southey (1745–1792) by his wife, Margaret Hill (1752–1802), and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born...
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Wittiza (redirect from Wittiza of the Visigoths)
Arab, 15–19. The Chronicle of Alfonso III reports that he tried to make the bishops of the realm marry. Collins, Arab, 19. Bradley, The Goths, 356. Collins...
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Visigothic Kingdom (redirect from List of Kings of the Visigoths)
The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths (Latin: Regnum Gothorum) occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula...
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Roderic as a usurper who earned the allegiance of other Goths by deception, and the less reliable late-9th-century Chronicle of Alfonso III shows a clear hostility...
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remarks that "whatever the reason for the [Goths'] persecution [of the Jews], it may have contributed to the utter destruction of those who initiated and...
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Roman people (category Ancient peoples of Europe)
to people identifying as Goths. There were few differences between the Goths and the Romans of Hispania at this point; the Visigoths no longer practised...
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Islam in Spain (section Cooperation Agreement between the Spanish State and the Islamic Commission of Spain)
led by the Muslim general Tariq ibn-Ziyad. The last Visigoth king, Roderick, was not considered a legitimate ruler by all of the inhabitants of the Spanish...
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Catholic Church (redirect from The Worldwide Roman Catholic Church)
followers of the 'apostle of the Goths', Wulfilas." Le Goff, p. 14: "Thus what should have been a religious bond was, on the contrary, a subject of discord...
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Berserker (redirect from The Berserker)
Kovářová, L. (2011). "The Swine in Old Nordic Religion and Worldview". Háskóla Íslands. S2CID 154250096. Duncan, Dale, Roderick Thomas (10 December 2014)...
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Greece (redirect from The Hellenic Republic)
Christian. The Empire's Balkan territories, including Greece, suffered from the dislocation of barbarian invasions; raids by Goths and Huns in the 4th and...
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Germanic name (category Names of Germanic origin)
specialist in North Germanic languages as gauta-stabaz (gauta-stabaR) "staff of the Goths" Old English Pǣga (unknown meaning) Waldo from Old English Waltheof (unknown...
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die at the hands of the Goths, Sörli talks of the cruelty of the dísir who incited him to kill Erpr, because he would have cut off the head of Ermanaric...
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Nazism (redirect from Ideology of the Nazi Party)
Visigoths were responsible for the creation of the Spanish Empire; and that the heritage of the Franks, Goths and Germanic peoples in France was what was...
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"Linguistic evidence for the early migrations of the Goths". In Heather, Peter (ed.). The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic...
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Ancient history (redirect from The Ancient World)
Migration of Germanic peoples to Britain from what is now northern Germany and southern Scandinavia is attested from the 5th century. Groups of Goths migrated...
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Europe. Of the Germanic tribes that spread through Europe, the theorists identified that the Burgundians, Franks, and Western Goths joined with the Gauls...
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Byzantine Greeks (redirect from Greeks of the Byzantine Empire)
Kaldellis 2007, p. 66: "Just as the Byzantines referred to foreign peoples by classical names, making the Goths into Skythians and the Arabs into Medes, so too...
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