Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Aurora and Terry

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A Carolean Verse Romance

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This story was written for the Soaring Twenties Social Club (STSC) Symposium. This month, the theme is Fiction.

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Introduction

This poem is in the style of an Elizabethan1 verse romance2, such as Venus and Adonis or Hero and Leander. The term Carolean refers to the fact that we are now in the reign of Charles III.

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