Hiroona : an historical romance in poetic form / Reverend Canon Horatio Nelson Huggins ; edited, with annotations and an introduction by Desha Amelia Osborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huggins, Horatio Nelson, 1830-1895, author.

Contributor:

Osborne, Desha Amelia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative poetry, English.

Saint Vincent--History--Carib War, 1795-1796--Poetry.

Saint Vincent.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, 2015.

Summary:

With over nine thousand lines of rhyming verse, Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form tells the fictionalized story of the "Second Carib War" of 1795-97 between Great Britain and the people then known as the Black Caribs with the aid of France.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes on Editing

Introduction

Original Foreword

Original Preface

Hiroona Discovered

Canto I

Early History of St Vincent

Canto II

Mutterings of Coming War

Canto III

French Intrigue and War Begins

Canto IV

A Carib Raid

Canto v

RanÈe

Canto vI

The Caribs Sweep All Before Them

Canto VII

Caribs Repulsed: Chetwayé Falls

Canto VIII

Victory Fluctuates

Canto IX

The War Continues. England's Star Ascending

Canto X

Events of the War: RanÈe Slain

Canto XI

Hiroona Falls

Canto XII

Hiroona's Doom

Appendix

The Holiday

Notes

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789766405717

9766405719

OCLC:

1393305340