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It can hardly be doubted that the Thomas most famous of renown was a native of Tweedside, of the village now unhappily called Earlstoun, and that he flourished during the thirteenth century. His reputation as a seer, also indisputable, resting upon certain predictions of the chief events in the Edwardian wars of the fourteenth century, appears to have been firmly rooted in his lifetime, or in the years immediately succeeding his 7 death;'and'certainly extended far beyond the limits of his own district. Thomas appears also to have been illustrious as a poet, and is credited by a contemporary, Thomas Mannyng of Brunne, with the authorship of an incomparable romance of the story of Tristrem, but the Thomas of that poem, it is sometimes perversely argued, is another than Thomas of Ercildoune. Yet a poet, great or small, our Thomas must surely have been, for many poems were ascribed to him by early tradition, among others - although here again we are warned against credulity - that which celebrates his meeting with the Faery Queen, his journey with her through middel-erthe, and seven years' sojourn in her kingdom. Of this poem a great part consists in a prophetic survey of the English and Scottish wars of 1300 to 1400, a singularly lifeless performance, which we may perhaps believe is by another and later hand than the faery tale, that here shines like the rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
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It can hardly be doubted that the Thomas most famous of renown was a native of Tweedside, of the village now unhappily called Earlstoun, and that he flourished during the thirteenth century. His reputation as a seer, also indisputable, resting upon certain predictions of the chief events in the Edwardian wars of the fourteenth century, appears to have been firmly rooted in his lifetime, or in the years immediately succeeding his 7 death;'and'certainly extended far beyond the limits of his own district. Thomas appears also to have been illustrious as a poet, and is credited by a contemporary, Thomas Mannyng of Brunne, with the authorship of an incomparable romance of the story of Tristrem, but the Thomas of that poem, it is sometimes perversely argued, is another than Thomas of Ercildoune. Yet a poet, great or small, our Thomas must surely have been, for many poems were ascribed to him by early tradition, among others - although here again we are warned against credulity - that which celebrates his meeting with the Faery Queen, his journey with her through middel-erthe, and seven years' sojourn in her kingdom. Of this poem a great part consists in a prophetic survey of the English and Scottish wars of 1300 to 1400, a singularly lifeless performance, which we may perhaps believe is by another and later hand than the faery tale, that here shines like the rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 048312284X
- ISBN 13 9780483122840
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages44
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