{"id":241,"date":"2012-04-16T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=241"},"modified":"2012-07-02T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:15:20","slug":"henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1807-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1807-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>1839 \u2018The Wreck of Hesperus\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Most likely the first afterlife work to occur outside of Britain, this poem was originally titled, &#8216;The Ballad of Schooner Hesperus&#8217;. This ballad features moon imagery as well as exact phrases and patterns that appear in Percy&#8217;s version of Spens. Longfellow even includes a sailor who warns the captain of a winter storm that will kill them all.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Selected Criticism<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Martin B. Ostrofsky, &#8216;Longfellow&#8217;s &#8220;The Wreck of the Hesperus&#8221;: A Folkloric Analysis&#8217;. <em>Kentucky Folklore Record. <\/em>(1984).<\/p>\n<p>Charles C. Calhoun, <em>Longfellow: a rediscovered life. <\/em>(Boston: Beacon Press, 2004). pp. 138-139.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Longfellow, <em>The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with excerpts from his journal and correspondence.<\/em> Vol I of II. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891 [1886]). pp. 297, 353-355.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry-online.org\/longfellow_the_wreck_of_the_hesperus.htm\">Poetry-Online<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/classiclit.about.com\/library\/bl-etexts\/hwlongfellow\/bl-hwl-wreck2.htm\">About.com<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MIAUAAAAYAAJ\">GoogleBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Excerpt]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then up and spake an old Sail\u00f2r,<br \/>\nHad sailed to the Spanish Main,<br \/>\n&#8216;I pray thee, put into yonder port,<br \/>\nFor I fear a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Last night, the moon had a golden ring,<br \/>\nAnd to-night no moon we see!&#8217;<br \/>\nThe skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe,<br \/>\nAnd a scornful laugh laughed he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1839 \u2018The Wreck of Hesperus\u2019 Most likely the first afterlife work to occur outside of Britain, this poem was originally titled, &#8216;The Ballad of Schooner Hesperus&#8217;. This ballad features moon imagery as well as exact phrases and patterns that appear &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1807-1882\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}