Charles Kingsley

Poems: Including the Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c Charles Kingsley

The story which I have here put into a dramatic form is one familiar to Romanists, and perfectly and circumstantially authenticated. A bridged versions of it, carefully softened and sentimentalized, may be read in any Romish collection of Lives of the Saints. An enlarged edition has been published in France, I believe by Count Montalembert, and translated, with illustrations, by an English gentleman, which admits certain miraculous legends, of later date, and, like other prodigies, worthless to the student of human character. From consulting this work I have hitherto abstained, in order that I might draw my facts and opinions, entire and unbiassed, from the original Biography of Elizabeth, by Dietrich of A ppold, her contemporary, as given entire by Canisius. Dietrich was born in Thuringia, near the scene of Elizabeth slabours, a few years before her death; had conversed with those who had seen her, and calls to witness God and the elect angels, that he had inserted nothing but what he had either understood from religious and veracious persons, or read in approved writings, viz.
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