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A CORNISH ANTHOLOGY Some Books by A A CORNISH ANTHOLOGY Some books by A. L. Rowse CORNISH A Cornish Childhood A Cornishman at Oxford Cornish Stories Tudor Cornwall Poems Chiefly Cornish Poems of Cornwall and America The Cornish in America St Austell: Church, Town, Parish A Cornish Anthology ENGLISH The England of Elizabeth The Expansion of Elizabethan England The Elizabethans and America Ralegh and the Throckmortons Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge The Early Churchills The Later Churchills The Churchills The English Spirit (Revised edition) Times, Persons, Places William Shakespeare: A Biography Shakespeare's Sonnets (Edited with an Introduction and Notes) Christopher Marlowe: A Biography Shakespeare's Southampton: Patron of Virginia Poems Partly American eA Cornish eAntbology CHOSEN BY A. L. ROWSE Palgrave Macmillan 1968 Selection and editorial matter © A. L. Rowse 1968 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1968 Published by MACMILLAN AND CO LTD Little Essex Street London wc2 and also at Bombay Calcutta and Madras Macmillan South Africa (Publishers) Pty Ltd Johannesburg The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd Toronto ISBN 978-1-349-15283-4 ISBN 978-1-349-15281-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-15281-0 To Douglas Jay For his love of Cornwall and his friendship over many years Contents PREFACE XV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvii I. Prologue I. When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Thomas Hardy 3 2. Setting Cornish to Music Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray 4 3· The Cornish Language Richard Carew 5 4· And Shall Trelawny Die? R.S.Hawker 5 5· The Cornish Emigrant's Song R.S.Hawker 6 6. Emigrant Miners R. L. Stevenson 7 II. Places I, D. H. Lawrence Likes Cornwall D. H. Lawrence II 2. St. Michael's Mount J. Farington II 3· The Vision of the Mount John Milton 12 4· Peter Warlock at Zennor Peter Warlock I3 5· A Cottage at Poltescoe Arthur Symons 14 6. Ludgvan and St. Just Contrasts Dr. Borlase and Dr. Oliver of Bath I6 7· Erisey Arthur Symons 16 8. Phillack Sir Compton Mackenzie IS 9· Redruth A. K. Hamilton Jenkin 20 10. Celia Fiennes Visits Tregothnan Celia Fiennes 21 II. How Many Miles to Mylar? A.L.Rowse 23 12. Winds at Gorran Anne Treneer 24 I3. From a Cornish Window Q 25 I4· Trenarren: Autumn 194I A.L.Rowse 27 15. The Wind in the Willows Peter Green 28 I6. The Harbour of Fowey Q 29 vii I7• The Sunken Garden at Tregrehan A.L.Rowse 30 IS. A Plan-an-Gwary: Ferran Round Q 33 I9· Near Lanivet Thomas Hardy 34 20. Blisland Church John Betjeman 36 2I. Autumn in Cornwall A. C. Swinburne 38 22. Tintagel in Tudor Times John Leland 40 23. Trebetherick ]ohn Betjeman 4I 24· Mist on Bodmin Moor Margaret Leigh 42 25· Beeny Cliff Thomas Hardy 44 26. Dozmary Pool Margaret Leigh 45 27. The Seasons in North Cornwall Charles Causley 46 28. The Phantom Horsewoman Thomas Hardy 47 29· Snowfall at Kernick Jack Clemo 49 30· The Isles of Scilly Geoffrey Grigson 49 Ill. People I. Theodora Paleologus in Landulph Church 53 2. A Natural Richard Carew 53 3· Nicholas Boscawen Charles Henderson 55 4· The Parson of St. Ewe Richard Carew 56 5· On Sir F. Carew Sidney Godolphin 57 6. Thomas Hobbes Dedicates the Leviathan 57 7· Character of Sidney Godolphin Lord Clarendon 58 8. Lord Treasurer Godolphin Charles II and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough 59 9· Sir Bevil Grenville William Cartwright 6o IO. Character of Sir Harry Killigrew Lord Clarendon 63 II. The Beautiful Lady Robartes Anthony Hamilton 64 I2. Mrs. Anne Killigrew John Dryden 65 I3· The Second Lord Godolphin Lord Hervey 68 I4· On Sir John St. Aubyn Sir Robert Walpole 68 I5• Admiral Boscawen William Pitt and Mrs. Boscawen 69 I6. William Glanville Boscawen 69 I7· Mrs. Delany's First Husband Mrs. Delany 70 IS. Dr. Borlase Remembered General Tremenheere 72 19. Friends Dr. Oliver of Bath 72 viii 20. An Eighteenth-century Gentleman Mrs. Delany 73 21. A Fracas at the Opera J. Farington 73 22. Mr. Tillie of Pentillie W.S. Gilpin 74 23. In Linkinhorne Churchyard 75 24· Boswell's Friend Temple Lewis Bettany 75 25. Sir Christopher Hawkins Nancy Temple 77 26. John Opie's Beginnings J. Farington 77 27. Opie's Originality J. Farington 78 28. Sir Humphry Davy E. C. Bentley and S. T. Coleridge 79 29· Sir Humphry Davy and Sir Walter Scott J. G. Lockhart 79 30. Miss Branwell Becomes Mrs. Bronte Mrs. Gaskell 81 31· Aunt Branwell Mrs. Gaskell 81 32. Matthew Arnold's Family A. B. Baldwin and Matthew Arnold 83 33· Coleridges at Helston Caroline Fox 83 34· Evening at Enys Caroline Fox 84 35· Mill on Sir William Molesworth John Stuart Mill 85 36. Molesworths 85 37· George Borrow Visits his Kinsfolk W.I.Knapp 86 38. Jonathan Couch the Naturalist Q 87 39· Burnard the Sculptor Caroline Fox 89 40· Billy Bray: Miner, Evangelist ClaudeBe"y 90 41. The Death of Cheelie A.L.Rowse 92 42. The Squire of Lanarth Frank Baines 94 43· The Perpetual Curate of Cury-with-Gunwalloe Bernard Walke 97 44· The Vicar of Poughill 99 45· 'Atky' Peter Green 99 46. Charles Henderson Q 100 47· Christopher Wood Robin Atthill 103 48. The Voyages of Alfred Wallis W.S.Graham 104 IV. History and Events I. Tumult over King Arthur Charles Henderson 109 2. Excommunication at St. Buryan Charles Henderson 109 3· St. Michael's Mount Richard Carew 112 ix 4· Before Agincourt William Shakespeare 114 5· The Trevelyans G. M. Trevelyan 114 6. Storm Drives Essex's Fleet into Falmouth, I 597 The Earl of Essex II6 7· The Spanish Raid on Penzance 117 8. Charles I on Sir John Eliot II7 9· Sir Bevil Grenville Goes toW ar II7 10. Inscription on St. Ives Loving Cup Francis Basset II8 II. Francis Basset Rejoices over a Royalist Victory II8 12. King Charles's Letter to the Inhabitants of Cornwall 119 13. The Surrender of Pendennis Castle Lord Clarendon 120 14. Prince Charles Escapes via Scilly Lord Clarendon 120 15. A Brief Narration of the Town of Fowey's Sufferings 122 16. Restoration Amenities 123 17. George Fox in Doomsdale George Fox 124 18. The Funeral of Margaret Godolphin John Evelyn 125 19. A Sea-Fight Off the Lizard Daniel Defoe 125 20. Planting the Tree of Liberty William Jenkin 126 21. Trevithick's Steam Locomotive Davies Gilbert 127 22. Up Camborne 'ill, Comin' Down Traditional 128 23· Napoleon's Curiosity about Cornwall I. H. Vivian 128 24. Saltash Bridge L. T. C.Rolt 130 25. The Duchy of Cornwall A.L.Rowse 132 26. Mylorin War-Time Marion Howard Spring 133 27. Fighting Gunboats Robert Hichens 134 V. Travellers and Travelling I. Ralegh and Spenser Land at the Mount Edmund Spenser 139 2. A Great Naturalist on Tour John Ray 139 3· Apple-Pie at St. Austell Celia Fiennes 143 4· Wesley in West Cornwall John Wesley 144 5· Dr. Borlase Disapproves Dr. Borlase q6 6. Riot at Falmouth !ohn Wesley 147 7· Georgian Tour Dean Lyttelton 149 8. A Summer Jaunt William Johnston Temple 151 9· William Beckford at Falmouth William Beckford 153 X IO. Southey Arrives by Packet Robert Southey I 54 II. A Fight with an American Privateer I 55 I2. An American Ally I 56 I3· Byron Departs by Packet Lord Byron I 56 I4. Byron's Farewell from Falmouth Roads Lord Byron 157 15. The Picturesque Tamar W. S. Gilpin x6o I6. Travelling Bernard Moore I6I VI. Occupations and Callings I. A Dream of a Tinwork Richard Carew 165 2. Tinners' Finds Richard Carew 166 3· Early Tin Mining Celia Fiennes I66 4· Dr. Borlase's Occupations Dr. Borlase 16S 5· The Mines of Gwennap William Beckford 16S 6. A Rich Mine Traditional 170 7· A Young Sailor 170 s. Wedgwood and China Clay Eliza Meteyard 170 9· Carclaze Tin Mine ]. Farington 173 10. Georgian Head-Master R. Polwhele 174 II. A Cornish Fellow of All Souls Dr. Borlase 175 I2. Dr. Cardew Makes Good 176 13. Mining under the Sea W.G.Maton 177 14· Iron Casting Caroline Fox 177 15. A Shipwright I79 I6. Datur Hora Quieti R.S.Hawker 179 17· The Wreck of the Caledonia R.S.Hawker ISO IS. The Smuggler's Song R.S.Hawker 1S2 19· The Last of the Smugglers R.S.Hawker 1S3 20. Officious Zeal IS5 2I. Thackeray Electioneers at Liskeard W. M. Thackeray 1S5 22. Michael Verran the Miner Thomas Carlyle 1S7 23. Early Train Services E. T. MacDermot 1SS 24. Wooden Viaducts on the G.W.R. E. T. MacDermot 1S9 25· Founding the Bishopric of Truro E. F. Benson 190 26. The Old Labourer Arthur Symons 192 27· Laying Up the Boat Q 193 xi 28. Bathing Sir Compton Mackenzie 195 29. The Fisher's Widow Arthur Symons 197 30. Heva! Heval Sir Compton Mackenzie 198 3I. Holidays at Menabilly 199 32· 'Bethlehem' at St. Hilary Bernard Walke 202 33· The Cinder-heap Jack Clemo 203 34· China Clay Bernard Leach 204 35· Glazing Bernard Leach 205 36. Riches Bernard Moore 206 37· Buying a Farm Margaret Leigh 207 38. From the States Bernard Moore 208 VII. Folklore, Charms and Inscriptions I. West Country Folk Song A.L.Rowse 213 2, A True Ballad of Sir Henry Trecarell Charles Causley 214 3· Constantine William Peter 2!6 4· Mevagissey Charles Causley 217 5· To the Mermaid at Zennor John Heath-Stubbs 219 6. 'Treacle' Caroline Fox 220 7· Helston Furry Dance Song Traditional 220 8. The Furry Dance Traditional 221 9· Summercourt Fair Traditional 222 IO.
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