Language and literature and SF Maritime Collections

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Highlights from the Park's collections related to language and literature:

 

Language, sea terms:

• Crow's nest, "What d'ya mean by 'Crow's Nest?'" (blog post)
• Craft, "What d'ya mean?" (blog post)
• Donkey's breakfast, "What d'ya mean by 'Donkey's Breakfast?'" (blog post)
• Fathom, "What is a fathom?" (blog post)
• Worm parcel serve

Fiction:

• "A Look at Nautical Pulp Fiction" (blog post)

Poetry:

• "Excerpt from E.A. Poe's Story of a Sea Voyage Gone Wrong," a reading from Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom:" watch the video on our website or on our YouTube channel, or locate this story in a book in the Research Center's Keys Catalog.
• "Full Fathom Five," Ariel's song by Shakespeare (blog post)
• "Full Fathom Five My Novel Lies," a parody of Shakespeare by A. Poppet-Turning (blog post)
• Maritime poems for your pocket, to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day during National Poetry Month
• Poetry in the Archives (blog post) and Poetry in Ocean: a brief look at rhymes and verse in the archival collections of SF Maritime NHP.
• Reprinted rhymes from Nautical Nursery Rhymes by Billy Ringbolt on the Full Fathom Five blog or in the blog archives
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II: watch the video of the reading on our website or on our YouTube channel, or search the Keys Catalog for editions in the Research Center.
• "Ships by John Masefield" (blog post)
• "Stack Fever" by A. Poppet-Turning, a parody of "Sea Fever" (blog post)
• "A Wanderer's Song" by John Masefield, text and audio
• "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Eugene Field, a reading (video)

Writers:

• Pease, Howard, "Digging for Gold at the Library: Howard Pease" (blog post)

 

Multimedia:

 

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  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

  A brief introduction about Eugene Field followed by a reading of his poem, "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," a poem of three little fishermen in a beautiful, dreamy sea.

  Duration:

  3 minutes, 34 seconds