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Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier
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The Sicilian’s Tale
This story of King Robert of Sicily is very old, as it is found among the short stories of the Gesta Romanorum written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
17. seditious: tending towards disorder and treason.
52. besprent: poetic for besprinkled.
66. seneschal: the official in the household of a prince of high noble who had the supervision of feasts and ceremonies.
106. Saturnian: the fabled reign of the god Saturn was the golden age of the world, characterized by simplicity, virtue, and happiness.
110. Enceladus, the giant. Longfellow’s poem "Enceladus" emphasizes this reference. For the story of the giants and the punishment of Enceladus see any good Greek mythology.
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Chicago: Margaret Spraque Carhart, "The Sicilian’s Tale," Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916), Original Sources, accessed February 12, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD1ZAIPY3N9R95M.
MLA: Carhart, Margaret Spraque. "The Sicilian’s Tale." Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916, Original Sources. 12 Feb. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD1ZAIPY3N9R95M.
Harvard: Carhart, MS, 'The Sicilian’s Tale' in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier. cited in 1916, Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 12 February 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD1ZAIPY3N9R95M.
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