{"id":276,"date":"2012-04-16T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=276"},"modified":"2012-07-02T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:24:49","slug":"william-hershaw-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/william-hershaw-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"William Hershaw (1957-"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>2006 \u2018Sir Patrick Spens\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hershaw retells the ballad from Spens\u2019s point of view, instead of through an omniscient narrator. Dunfermline and Aberdour, both mentioned in Percy\u2019s version of the ballad, are in Fife, where Hershaw is a native. Hershaw sets his sonnet in the middle of the storm with the ship about to founder. Spens is frustrated, but resigned to his fate. He does not blame his death and the loss of his ship on the &#8216;gurly sea\u2019 or the moon. He blames it instead on the spiteful landsman who had recommended him to the king. Hershaw\u2019s Spens not only does not respect the king and his court, he hates the nobles aboard:<\/p>\n<p>some fool at Court I\u2019d crossed, officious, smug<br \/>\ncondemned the pricks below in cork heeled shoon<br \/>\nand sunk me with a word in the King\u2019s lug.<\/p>\n<p>Hershaw ends with Spens declaring:&#8217;A bitter drink then\u2014saltier than French wine\/we\u2019ll drink the King\u2019s good health among the brine&#8217;. Hershaw uses the original ballad in his own poem to reiterate the theme of the original work: &#8216;Sir Patrick Spens&#8217; is the story of a competent mariner who suffers from the power of foolish and callous men ashore.<\/p>\n<p>[Excerpts from: &#8216;Sir Patrick Spens,&#8217; <em>Fifty Fife Sonnets Coarse and Fine: Parochial Petrarchan Poems for Pleasure and Perusal. <\/em>(Kirkcaldy, Scotland: Akros Publications, 2006), p. 7. ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2006 \u2018Sir Patrick Spens\u2019 Hershaw retells the ballad from Spens\u2019s point of view, instead of through an omniscient narrator. Dunfermline and Aberdour, both mentioned in Percy\u2019s version of the ballad, are in Fife, where Hershaw is a native. Hershaw sets &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/william-hershaw-1957\/\">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-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}