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Such Was the Wreck of the Hesperus

The Internal Meta-Narrative of Turner’s Tempest as He Is Tied to the Mast in Order to Create the Direct Experience of the Drama Embodied Within a “snow Storm - [Wherein a] Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and Going by the Lead [Is Rendered by Virtue of the Claim That] The Author Was in This Storm on the Night the Ariel Left Harwich.”