Sir Patrick Spense : hero of a Scottish ballad written in 16th century by an unknown poet. Spense was a Scottish nobleman put in charge of a ship by the king.
... which stand among the noblest expressions of high, deep, yet collected and contained emotion in literature—though that is a masculine and this a feminine nobility. There is in the ballad of Sir Patrick Spense the same poignancy and restraint—something that gives a sense of universality and almost impersonality in the midst of the pathetic expression of sorrow. There is a quiver but a high compassionate ...
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