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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
June 1992
On Sale: June 1, 1992
272 pages ISBN: 0374523444 EAN: 9780374523442 Paperback
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Fiction Poetry
Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects
several poems concerning the so-called "Pantisocracy"
(meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme
devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century
poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert
Southey. What if they had indeed set up such an ideal
community on the banks of the Susquehanna? That is the crux
of this book's long and fascinating title poem, which
depicts events via the mind's eye of one of Southey's
reputed descendants.
The poems in this book also
focus more directly on the legend of Madoc himself, the
Welsh prince who some believe came to America 300 years
before Columbus and sired a line of Welsh-speaking Indians.
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