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"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. [1] The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. It is written in ballad meter with the rhyme scheme ABAB. It is ...
118 Duke Street, Liverpool, birthplace of Felicia Hemans. Felicia Dorothea Browne was the daughter of George Browne, who worked for his father-in-law's wine importing business and succeeded him as Tuscan and imperial consul in Liverpool, and Felicity, daughter of Benedict Paul Wagner (1718–1806), wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool and Venetian consul for that city. [6]
Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca (French pronunciation: [lyk ʒyljɛ̃ ʒozɛf kazabjɑ̃ka]; 7 February 1762 – 1 August 1798) was an officer of the French Navy in the 18th century. He was killed at the Battle of the Nile .
Camille de Casabianca (born 1960), French filmmaker and writer; Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca (1762–1798), French Navy officer; Paul de Casabianca (1839–1916), French lawyer, Senator of Corsica from 1885 to 1903; Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca (1738–1825), French general
One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and gives a fictional account of the actual death of the French Captain Casabianca's son on Orient, i.e. the boy who famously "stood on the burning deck" was French. [203] Monuments were raised, including Cleopatra's Needle in London.
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In 1961, Waldrop and his wife, Rosmarie Waldrop, founded Burning Deck, a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. The press was named after a line from the poem "Casabianca," by nineteenth-century poet Felicia Hemans. The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;