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1. Gwin King of Norway

   March 2012 William Blake (1757–1827) 1.        William Blake was a poet, painter and printmaker. He is known as the most singularly unique artist of his age. Although virtually unknown during his lifetime, his productions in both word and picture have ins ...

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2. Hymn to Woden

   March 2012 William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) 1.        William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic, first achieved fame in 1789 with Fourteen Sonnets, Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey (1789). He later published a series of long poems ...

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3. Glossary of Frequently Recurring Terms and Names

   March 2012 Glossary of Frequently Recurring Terms and Names Angantyr. The eldest of twelve sons of the warrior Arngrim. Angantyr was given possession of the magic sword Tyrfing, which had lightning properties, but killed a man every time it was unsheathed ...

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4. Hrim-Thor or The Winter King

   March 2012 Anonymous 1.        The collection The Tales of Terror came out in May 1801, following hard on the heels of Matthew Lewis’s Tales of Wonder (November 1800). This has frequently been attributed to Lewis, but no external evidence supports this cl ...

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5. Gunlaug

   March 2012 Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) 1.        Landor was an English writer and poet. He is best known for his long poem Gebir (1798), which tells the story of a prince of Spain who becomes enamoured with Queen Charoba of Egypt, his enemy. Robert S ...

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6. The Water King

   March 2012 Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818) 1.        Matthew Lewis is best remembered for The Monk (1796), one of the most influential, and controversial, Gothic novels in English. This novel was written in ten weeks and published before he was twenty. ...

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7. Fiolfar

   March 2012 Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) 1.        Thomas Love Peacock was employed with the East India Company until his retirement at the age of 70. He began early in his life to write, and throughout his life he published a number of poetry collectio ...

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8. The Carousal of Odin

   March 2012 Thomas Penrose (1743–1779) 1.        Thomas Penrose enlisted as a soldier in the British capture of Nova Colonia, South America, which had been seized by the Spanish. He was wounded in an ill-fated naval battle of 1762 and never fully recovered ...

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9. Salisbury Plain – Stonehenge

   March 2012 Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) 1.        Ann Radcliffe was one of the most popular writers of her day and almost universally admired in the 1790s and beyond. She took up the Gothic novel, which Horace Walpole had launched in 1764 with his The Castle ...

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10. Extract from Arthur; or, the Northern Enchantment. A Poetical Romance, in Seven Books,

    March 2012 Richard Hole (1746–1803) 1.        Richard Hole was a graduate from Oxford University, who considered a military career, but was eventually ordained in the Church of England. He held the curacy of Sowton, and later Buckerell, both near Exeter. ...

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