Walter Raleigh not only had the misfortune to die twice in life; he also has suffered a third death posthumously, that of his reputation
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His true achievements, Mr Gallay argues, were deeper than that puddle tale. In his lifetime Raleigh’s influence spanned the oceans, reshaped territories and pervaded the very air of England. He named the American state of Virginia and inspired Edmund Spenser’s monumental poem, “The Faerie Queene”. He probably brought Ireland the potato; he scented the air of the English court with tobacco. The minds, lands—and lungs—of the English would never be the same again.
Then, in 1584, Elizabeth granted her favourite an exclusive patent to colonise North America. Raleigh duly set about professionalising colonisation and philosophising about it. Where the previous lot sent dancers, he dispatched a brilliant scholar and a painter; the settlement foundered, but their work shaped European views of Native Americans for centuries.
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