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Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier
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Skipper Ireson’s Ride
Skipper Ireson’s Ride. Whittier was told after this poem was published that it was not historically accurate, since the crew and not Skipper
Ireson was to blame for the desertion of the wreck. He stated that he had founded his poem on a song sung to him when he was a boy.
3. Apuleius’s Golden Ass. Apuleius was a Latin satirical writer whose greatest work was a romance or novel called "The Golden Ass." The hero is by chance changed into an ass,, and has all sorts of adventures until he is finally freed from the magic by eating roses in the hands of a priest of Isis.
3. one-eyed Calendar’s horse of brass. See the Arabian Nights’
Entertainments for the story of the one-eyed beggar.
6. Al-Borak: according to the Moslem creed the animal brought by Gabriel to carry Mohammed to the seventh heaven. It had the face of a man, the body of a horse, the wings of an eagle, and spoke with a human voice.
11. Marblehead, in Massachusetts.
30. Maenads: the nymphs who danced and sang in honor of Bacchus, the god of vegetation and the vine.
35. Chalettr Bay, in Newfoundland, a part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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Chicago: Margaret Spraque Carhart, "Skipper Ireson’s Ride," Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916), Original Sources, accessed October 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KTVYFJFHSDPMNKT.
MLA: Carhart, Margaret Spraque. "Skipper Ireson’s Ride." Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916, Original Sources. 11 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KTVYFJFHSDPMNKT.
Harvard: Carhart, MS, 'Skipper Ireson’s Ride' in Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier. cited in 1916, Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KTVYFJFHSDPMNKT.
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