Waterloo in poem, song and stage

The Irish poet Edmund Lenthal Swifte published a poem in honour of Waterloo in November 1815 which included the lines: ‘That day!—What grief, what glory, marked that day! Tears dim our triumphs, triumphs dry our tears’. Many songs and ballads published after 1815 took Waterloo as their theme. For example, in a collection of songs ... Read more

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