ABSTRACT
In his epic poem Paul Kruger's Dream, Robert Grendon tells the story of the rise and fall of the Boer nation and its leader, Paul Kruger. Grendon does this in the traditional style of the national epic, but his work comes with a twist. Grendon employs many different prophetic voices in Paul Kruger's Dream. These serve a number of purposes within the narrative, including the development of the plot, providing the reader with a foreshadowing of events to come, and giving Grendon himself a voice with which to share his own religious beliefs and political opinions. The first of the prophetic visitors Paul Kruger enco unters is the goddess Fortuna. Fortuna, who has been sent by Jove, appears to Paul Kruger in the Land of Dreams, where she provides a substantial and unsolicited prophecy in an iambic tetrameter. With the departure of Fortuna, the plot slows down considerably, remaining twenty-four parts of the epic covering only seven years of historical time.
