Masterworks of Sea Poetry (In-person)

Masterworks of Sea Poetry (In-person)

Fall (4-8 hours) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT

One Court Street Lebanon, NH 03766 United States
Room 2B-2nd Flr - Suite 250
10/6/2025-10/27/2025
12:30 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Mon
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$50.00

Masterworks of Sea Poetry (In-person)

Fall (4-8 hours) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of sea pirates, mermaids, ghost ships, lighthouses, shipwrecks, life and death at sea, over time developed a genre now known as Sea Poetry.

In the opening chapter of Moby Dick, Ishmael speaks about the irresistible force that draws man to the sea. Whenever the ocean meets the shore, says Herman Melville’s narrator, man will be found keeping a vigil, watching the sea. John Masefield may have said it best in the title of his poem, “Sea-Fever.”

We will be reading aloud and analyzing about 15 masterworks each week. Poets will include Mansfield, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, and more. There will be a small lab fee of about $10 for a printed class anthology.

This course will consist of discussions between the Study Leader and participants.

 


  • There will be a required reading packet estimated at $10, payable to the Study Leader.


Hank Buermeyer

Hank has salt water in his veins. As a youngster he spent his summers seining for bait, fishing and crabbing, and all-day swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.While in the U.S. Navy, he served on (aircraft carriers) and under (submarines) the sea. He loves to tell sea-stories.