Walter Raleigh at the Preparatory School of Barnard Castle School. Raleigh County, West Virginia, is also named in his honour. Mount Raleigh in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, was named for him, with related features the Raleigh Glacier and Raleigh Creek named in association with the mountain. Mount Gilbert, just to Mount Raleigh's south, was named for his half-brother, Sir Humphrey. Raleigh has been widely speculated to be responsible for introducing the potato to Europe, and was a key figure in bringing it to Ireland. However, modern historians dispute this claim, suggesting it would have been
Raleigh was Right Raleigh was Right "Raleigh was Right" is a poem by William Carlos Williams, composed in response to the Elizabethan exchange between Christopher Marlowe, in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", and Walter Raleigh, with "The Nymph's Reply". Horton Foote's "Roots in a Parched Ground", the opening play of "The Orphans' Home Cycle", takes its title from a line in this poem. <poem> "Raleigh was right" We cannot go to the country for the country will bring us no peace What can the small violets tell us that grow on furry stems in the long grass among lance-shaped leaves? Though you