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‘Whatever Ralegh sought from his youthful experiences of war, its principal impact was to impress on him a profound understanding of the meaning and experience of defeat. He was still restlessly ambitious, but the nervous explosive energy that led him to war, the lust for limitless freedom of action, now also had to accommodate an acute awareness of failure and its shames, which in turn fuelled the anxiety’
— Oct 27, 2018 05:39PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘That Elizabeth should turn to him at this point in her life should occasion less surprise than it does. He was not as unknown before Ireland as his biographers have traditionally suggested, notwithstanding the fact that his reputation tended more towards the disreputable and infamous than he would later care to recollect - something that he contrived to have painted otherwise in contemporary histories’
— Oct 30, 2018 04:25PM
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‘In constructing his public persona, Ralegh would take after his father and his name would be a byword for self-aggrandisement, for ambition, vanity and pride; but he would privately experience his successes with a churning visceral sense of worthlessness and doubt, fear and self-loathing. It was his parents’ gift to him: he grew up to be a man divided against himself.’
— Oct 27, 2018 05:12PM
