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- Title
Ballad haunting: Stevenson's 'The Song of Rahéro'.
- Authors
Henville, Letitia
- Abstract
She began with a smiling sadness, and looking on me out of melancholy eyes, to lament the decease of her own people. 'Ici pas de Kanaques', said she; and taking the baby from her breast, she held it out to me with both her hands. 'Tenez - a little baby like this; then dead. All the Kanaques die. Then no more'. [... I]n a perspective of centuries I saw their case as ours, death coming in like a tide, and the day already numbered when there should be no more Beretani1, and no more of any race whatever, and (what oddly touched me) no more literary works and no more readers.
- Subjects
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; ARMENIAN ballads; MARQUESANS
- Publication
Journal of Stevenson Studies, 2014, Vol 11, p45
- ISSN
1744-3857
- Publication type
Article