Narrative

25. In 1825, A Tale of Paraguay was published following several years of intermittent composition. This verse romance was composed of Spenserian stanzas and is based on a Latin narrative composed by Martin Dobrizhoffer, a Jesuit priest in Paraguay. The account was published in English as An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay (1822) and translated by Sara Coleridge, wife of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and resident in Southey