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English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)
Also known as: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Walter Ralegh, Walter, Sir Raleigh, Уолтер Рэли, والتر رالي
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Richard Hakluyt1552–1616ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElizabethan compilations of voyage and discovery narratives that share the promotional, exploratory prose of The Discovery of Guiana. (AI reason)
Edmund Spenser1552–1599ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElizabethan courtly poetry and allegory that circulates in the same literary milieu as Raleigh's lyric verse. (AI reason)
Philip Sidney1554–1586ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElizabethan courtier poetry and prose marked by the same refined lyricism and themes of love and mortality. (AI reason)
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElizabethan verse whose pastoral lyric 'The Passionate Shepherd' is directly answered by Raleigh's 'The Nymph's Reply'. (AI reason)
Francis Bacon1561–1626ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLate Elizabethan and Jacobean philosophical and historical prose comparable to Raleigh's History of the World and essays. (AI reason)
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John Donne1572–1631ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetMetaphysical meditations on death and worldly vanity echoing the tone of Raleigh's late poems. (AI reason)
Thomas Harriot1560–1621ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetA Briefe and True Report offers a parallel early English account of New World exploration and description. (AI reason)
Samuel Purchas1577–1626ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLarge collections of travel and exploration narratives continuing the Hakluyt tradition of voyage literature. (AI reason)
John Smith1580–1631ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEarly seventeenth-century colonial exploration narratives of Virginia and New England in a similar promotional style. (AI reason)
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke1554–1628ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSombre courtly verse and political reflection akin to Raleigh's meditations on power and fortune. (AI reason)
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- Sir Walter Ralegh's discoverie of Guiana
- The discoverie of the large, rich, and bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
- The works of Sir Walter Ralegh, kt. political, commercial, and philosophical; together with his letters and poems. The whole never before collected together, and some never yet printed. To which is prefix'd, a new account of his life
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