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28/11/2022

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

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Despite never having visited Greece, the American Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) seems to have been deeply impressed by the literary figure of the British Lord Byron and his Philhellenic stance.…

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The…

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Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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