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A group of travelers gathered at a rural New England inn exchange songs and stories while a frame narrator describes the inn and its company. Each guest — the landlord, a student, a Spanish Jewish merchant, a Sicilian, a musician, a theologian, and a poet — relates a distinct narrative that ranges from an American Revolutionary ride to medieval Italian romance, Jewish legend, Norse saga, and a grim Spanish tale of the Inquisition. The poems shift in tone and meter, mixing lyrical storytelling, translated folk-material, historical reminiscence, and moral reflection, and close with a reflective finale and supplemental lyric pieces that meditate on nature and the passing of time.

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Quentin Durward. 2 vols.

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Transcriber's Note: Variant spellings of cornfields and corn-fields are as in the original.