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G Governor Winthrop's Return to Boston An Interview with a Great Character George Washington Warren
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Governor Winthrop's Return to Boston

An Interview with a Great Character

by George Washington Warren

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In a darkened Scollay Square, John Winthrop's statue begins to speak. George Washington Warren imagines an interview with Boston's early governor, bringing a figure from the city's beginnings into conversation with a later generation. The poem uses rhyming dialogue to consider time, spiritual life and the history of First Church. Its opening exchange gives Winthrop a voice that is both familiar and conscious of the distance between his world and the speaker's.

A substantial prose introduction explains the statue's dedication, the church covenant and the communion cup associated with Winthrop. It also places the imagined visit among changes in Boston's buildings, institutions and civic customs. Readers interested in local memory can see how public monuments and church history become material for verse. The combination of explanatory prose and an imagined encounter shows how Warren uses the past to reflect on wealth, community and religious continuity.

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Reading time
About 10 minutes
Pages
19
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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