Sophomore Lit

135: Thanksgiving Special: The Wreck of the Hesperus

Nov 24, 2022

18:11

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Is It Bad Luck to Take Women to See?

02:36

What's Up the News?

01:32

God's Going to Put You in Your Place

01:35

Introduction

2min

Longfellow's Wreck of the Haspris

2min

Is It Bad Luck to Take Women to See?

3min

What's Up the News?

2min

Is There a Wreck of the Hespers?

2min

Norman's Whoa

2min

The Last Bite of the Hespers in the Midnight in the Snow

2min

God's Going to Put You in Your Place

2min

Is This a Poem?

3min

It’s Thanksgiving, so of course Rob, John, and Dan drink and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842).

John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy

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The Wreck of the Hesperus

Show Notes & Links

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Link to full poem.

SCHOONER HESPERUS WAS NEVER WRECKED

The New York Times gets pedantic.

What is the Spanish Main?

Spoiler: none of us got it right.

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