Oral reading of 'The Wreck of the Hesperus', written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1840. It details the hubris of a ship captain who refuses to make port despite a coming storm, putting both his crew and his precious daughter in danger.
Norman's Woe is an actual rock reef located off the shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the site of many shipwrecks. It is the subject not only of this poem, but a famous painting by artist Edward Moran.
Longfellow seems to have garnered inspiration for the poem from a terrible storm in 1839 that sank almost two dozen vessels; a woman was found washed ashore, tied to a mast.
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