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Ross tells us in his Memoirs (1923a, p. 28) that he began to write ‘painful verse’ in his last year at Springhill School, experimenting with various metres. These experiments continued throughout his life. As well as lyrics he started on two epic poems Edgar (1883) and CEnone. During the summer of 1875 when he was 18 both these efforts were resurrected as he decided that he ‘would take seriously to verse’ (Memoirs, p. 30), casting Edgar into dramatic blank verse in his efforts to study euphony.
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© 1997 Edwin R. Nye and Mary E. Gibson
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Nye, E.R., Gibson, M.E. (1997). Ross’ Literary Works. In: Ronald Ross: Malariologist and Polymath. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377547_9
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