"Who wrote the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus""?"
The Wreck of the Hesperus 1969. George Harrison included a song titled "Wreck of the Hesperus" on his 1987 album "Cloud Nine". The English poet Roger McGough recited a one-minute version of the poem, complete with sound effects, on the album "Miniatures" produced by Morgan Fisher in 1980. "Mad" magazine parodied the poem by presenting the text with outlandish illustrations by Wallace Wood, including a pint-sized captain and a hideous, tall daughter, who survives the storms and strides away still tied to the mast. The Wreck of the Hesperus "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first
The Wreck of the Hesperus ship that foundered during the same storm. “The Wreck of the Hesperus” is based on two events: an actual shipwreck at Norman’s Woe, after which a body like the one in the poem was found, and the real wreck of the Hesperus, which took place near Boston. Despite that fact, the poem is so well known that the loop road leading close to Norman’s Woe from Route 127 is named Hesperus Ave. In December 1839, Longfellow wrote in his diary about the writing of "The Wreck of the Hesperus": "The Wreck of the Hesperus" was adapted into films of the