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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026130103321

Autore

Huggins Horatio Nelson <1830-1895, >

Titolo

Hiroona : an historical romance in poetic form / / Reverend Canon Horatio Nelson Huggins ; edited, with annotations and an introduction by Desha Amelia Osborne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston, Jamaica : , : The University of the West Indies Press, , 2015

ISBN

9789766405717

9766405719

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Narrative poetry, English

Saint Vincent History Carib War, 1795-1796 Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Editing -- Introduction -- Original Foreword -- Original Preface -- Introduction -- Hiroona Discovered -- Canto I -- Early History of St Vincent -- Canto II -- Mutterings of Coming War -- Canto III -- French Intrigue and War Begins -- Canto IV -- A Carib Raid -- Canto v -- RanÈe -- Canto vI -- The Caribs Sweep All Before Them -- Canto VII -- Caribs Repulsed: Chetwayé Falls -- Canto VIII -- Victory Fluctuates -- Canto IX -- The War Continues. England's Star Ascending -- Canto X -- Events of the War: RanÈe Slain -- Canto XI -- Hiroona Falls -- Canto XII -- Hiroona's Doom -- Appendix -- The Holiday -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.

Sommario/riassunto

With over nine thousand lines of rhyming verse, Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form tells the fictionalized story of the "Second Carib War" of 1795-97 between Great Britain and the people then known as the Black Caribs with the aid of France.