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The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems

by Joseph Rodman Drake from 1835 (posth.)

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Drake's 'The Culprit Fay' (1816) is the first major American fairy poem: a mock-heroic account of an elf who loves a mortal girl and is set a series of supernatural tasks as penance. Written in four days, it was enormously admired by American readers of the period as evidence that American landscape and mythology could generate poetry as rich as the Old World's. Drake died of tuberculosis at twenty-five; his friend Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote the famous elegy beginning 'Green be the turf above thee.'

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The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems

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Duration
~1 hr 27 min

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BY JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
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THE CULPRIT FAY.
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TO A FRIEND.
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SONG.
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WRITTEN IN A LADY'S ALBUM.
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HOPE.
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TO ---
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TO EVA.
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