Epitaph to a Dog for shame. Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one -- and here he lies. </poem> Epitaph to a Dog "Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming
Romantic literature in English of Wales and its past had a far-reaching effect on the way in which the Welsh envisaged their own national identity during the nineteenth century". (See: Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt, eds., "Wales and the Romantic Imagination" (University of Wales Press, 2007), James Prothero. "Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism". Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. and Shawna Lichtenwalner, "Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era" (University of Delaware Press, 2008). James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that acquired international