Treasures of Cornwall. A Literary Anthology

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Preface
WILKIE COLLINS
from Rambles Beyond Railways
ROBERT SOUTHEYI
The Well of St Keyne
JOHN PENWARNE
Tregeagle, from Contemplation
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
from 'The Birds'
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH
from Poison Island
GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG
from The Story of Tristan and Iseult (tr. Jessie L.
Weston)
A. L. ROWSE
The Little Land
JACK CLEMO
The Excavator
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Lullabye
Come My Lads
Two WRESTLING SONGS
The Ballad of Cann and Polkinghorne
The Wrestling Match
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
from 'The Adventure of the Devil's Foot'
DINAH CRAIK
from An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
HAL-AN-TOW
(collected by Sabine Baring-Gould)
HUMPHRY DAVY
Lines
R. M. BALLANTYNE
from Deep Down
J. C. TREGARTHEN
from The Life Story of an Otter
THE GIANTS OF CORNWALL
from Histories of the Kings of Britain and the Origins of
Cornwall by Geoffrey of Monmouth
from 'The Giant Bolster' by Robert Hunt
from 'Jack the Giant Killer' by James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillipps
D. H. LAWRENCE
from Kangaroo
RALPH DUNSTAN
Blow the Man Down
John Sturtridge and the Piskies
A Cornish Smuggler's Song
The Boats of Sennen
The Mermaid
WILLIAM BOTTRELL
'The Mermaid of Zennor'
A Riddle for the Windy Road to St Ives
'THE FAIRY WIDOWER'
(collected by Robert Hunt)
EDITH ELLIS
'Lightning'
JOHN HARRIS
from 'The Mine'
WINSTON GRAHAM
from Ross Poldark
BRAM STOKER
from The Jewel of Seven Stars
THE MAY DAY SONGS OF PADSTOW
(collected by Robert Hunt)
The Morning Song
The Day Song
THOMAS HARDY
I Found Her Out There
Beeny Cliff
At Castle Boterel
CHARLES CAUSLEY
Angel Hill
R. S. HAWKER
from The Quest of the Sangraal
Death Song
The Wail of the Cornish Mother
The Song of the Western Men
Permissions Acknowledgements