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    Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed...
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    Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd (also spelled Madog) was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean in 1170, over...
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  • Ruth Madoc (born Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker; 16 April 1943 – 9 December 2022) was a British actress who had a career on stage and screen spanning over...
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  • for a baby’s lifetime voyage. Madoc may also refer to: Madog Elfed (c. 600), a hero mentioned in the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin Madog ap Rhiryd (12th-century)...
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  • from the first line of the poem, where he introduces himself as the same Willem who had previously written a work called Madoc: Willem, die Madocke maecte...
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    Dutch version of the story of Reynard, as written by Willem die Madoc maecte. The poem dates from around 1250. It is considered a major work of Middle...
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    Robert Southey (1801) Madoc by Robert Southey (1805) Psyche by Mary Tighe (1805) The Columbiad by Joel Barlow (1807) Milton: A Poem by William Blake (1804–1810)...
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  • The Inchcape Rock (category 1820 poems)
    the 'Inchcape Rock,' place Southey at the head of the ballad, while his 'Madoc' and his 'Roderic' place him very nearly at the tail of the epic poets of...
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    1774–1843. The doctor, &c. (1848) e-book of Madoc, an epic poem in two volumes about the legendary Welsh prince Madoc. Biography of Robert Southey by Peter...
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    concluding poem. As Muldoon produced more collections, the long poems gradually took up more space in the volume, until in 1990 the poem Madoc: A Mystery...
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    Thalaba the Destroyer (category 1801 poems)
    finished composing Madoc at the age of 25. Thalaba the Destroyer was completed while Southey travelled in Portugal. When the poem was finally published...
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    engaged in the execution of Madoc [...] We cannot, therefore, help expressing our wish, that he would not put his future poem to so hazardous an experiment...
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  • this has now been disproven. Dafydd composed poems on religious themes; his surviving work includes poems on the Ten Commandments, Salvation, and on the...
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  • In early Arthurian literature, Madoc ap Uthyr (also known as Madog or Madawg) is the son of Uther Pendragon, brother to King Arthur and father of Eliwlod...
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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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  • physical location. The background story of Madoc and his brother Gwydyr derive from a legend in which Madoc arrived in North America centuries before Leif...
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    The Curse of Kehama is an 1810 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he suffered...
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  • the Xuanhe period of the great Song Dynasty (大宋宣和遺事) c. 1250 – Willem die Madoc maecte – Van den vos Reynaerde 1250s – Stephen of Bourbon – De septem donis...
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    Reynard the Fox (category Mock-heroic poems)
    romance: A mid-13th-century Middle Dutch version of the story by Willem die Madoc maecte (Van den vos Reynaerde, Of Reynaert the Fox), is also made up of...
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    Southey Poems "After Blenheim" "The Inchcape Rock" "Cataract of Lodore" "Abou Ben Adhem" "The Devil's Walk" Epic poems Curse of Kehama Joan of Arc Madoc Roderick...
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    have originated from the 13th century, mentions another son of Uther named Madoc, the father of Arthur's nephew Eliwlod. In Triad 28, Uthyr is named the...
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  • some old Welsh texts, Eliwlod is a nephew of King Arthur. His father is Madoc, son of Uther Pendragon, an obscure brother of Arthur's mentioned a very...
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    Roderick the Last of the Goths (category 1814 poems)
    resumed working on his poem Curse of Kehama after he almost gave up poetry because of the reception of Thalaba the Destroyer and Madoc. This return to writing...
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    the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The statue influenced a 1833 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of...
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  • was Joss Ackland. Other celebrity hosts included Richard Briers, Philip Madoc, Amanda Redman, Annette Crosbie, Judi Dench, Patricia Routledge, Emma Thompson...
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  • years later, he gave Calliope to Richard Madoc. A later news report mentioned that Erasmus has died. Though Madoc assumed that he died of old age, he actually...
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    Gruffudd died in 1269 or 1270, the castle was inherited by his four sons. Madoc the eldest son was senior but each of the sons may have had apartments at...
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    in the 2003 animated film Y Mabinogi, in which he was voiced by Philip Madoc. He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for...
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  • whiteness in their creators. Based on the legendary voyages of the Welsh prince Madoc, the earliest English settlers sought and failed to uncover evidence of...
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    Blodeuwedd, Myrddin Wyllt, and King Arthur also appears in Porius. Madoc: See Madoc Breton mythology Cornish mythology Matter of Britain Welsh-language...
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