Froissart Ballads and Other Poems

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Originally published in 1847 Philip Pendleton Cooke's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Froissart Ballads </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>features tales of medieval romance knighthood and chivalry inspired by Jean Froissart's 14</span><sup style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th</sup><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-century recounting of daily life. Included too are miscellaneous poems originally featured in a myriad of different publications. Of special note is Florence Vane a poem edited by Edgar Allan Poe and highly touted as Cooke's finest work.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born in 1816 in Martinsburg Virginia (know West Virginia) Cooke was one of 13 children born to a political family. After graduating from Princeton he dabbled at practicing law but preferred to read write and hunt. Over the years he saw some success with his published work especially after receiving encouragement from his friend Edgar Allan Poe. Cooke's writing stands as a fine example of Romantic poetry. Tragically he died at the age of 33 in Clarke County Virginia after contracting pneumonia following a hunting trip.</span></p>