Who is the fictional seafarer in Dudley Pope's novels?
Dudley Pope April 1997 in Marigot, Saint Martin. Both his wife and his daughter, Jane Victoria survive him. Most of the novels are based on real events in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The year of these events is shown before the book title. The year of publication between 1965 and 1989 is shown after the title. Dudley Pope Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 – 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the
The Seafarer (poem) structure imply that "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer" have been transmitted from the pens of literate poets without serious corruption." With particular reference to "The Seafarer", Howlett further added that "The argument of the entire poem is compressed into" lines 58-63, and explained that "Ideas in the five lines which precede the centre" (line 63) "are reflected in the five lines which follow it". By 1982 Frederick S. Holton had amplified this finding by pointing out that "it has long been recognized that "The Seafarer" is a unified whole and that it is possible to interpret the first sixty-three-and-a-half lines