The Wreck of the Hesperus

Name: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Illustrations by H. Winthrop Pierce, Edmund H. Garrett, J.D. Woodward, W.F. Halsall, W.L. Taylor, A. Buhler, H.P. Barnes, A.J. Lewis. Drawn and engraved under the supervision of George T. Andrew"--Page [6]

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Duration

~4 minutes (4K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Garcia and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Release date

2004-10-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Hesperus (Ship) -- Poetry Shipwrecks -- Massachusetts -- Poetry

About the author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882

One of the most widely read American poets of the 19th century, he brought history, legend, and everyday feeling into musical, memorable verse. His poems and narrative works helped make poetry a central part of family reading in the United States and far beyond.

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