Surrender to the power of words in a Cornish castle Hay, Dartington and Cheltenham all have one. Now Falmouth is the latest town to host a literary festival. Tim Heald finds it's as good an excuse as any to visit this charming port

From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: September 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Falmouth's most plausible literary connection is its oldest. The town is supposed to have been founded in Elizabethan times at the suggestion of Sir Walter Raleigh, that roguish sea-canine adventurer some of whose claims to fame may have been dubious but who wrote one of the greatest of all poetic intimations of mortality.

"Even such is Time, which takes in trust

Our youth, our joys, and all we have,

And pays us but with age and dust;

Who in the dark and silent grave,

When we have wandered all our ways,

Shuts up the story of our days:

And from which earth, and grave, and dust,

The ...

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