A Romance of the Sea-Serpent, Or the Icthyosaurus [A Whisky Priest Book]

Download or read book A Romance of the Sea-Serpent, Or the Icthyosaurus [A Whisky Priest Book] written by Eugene Batchelder and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The largest monster in antebellum literature was the kraken depicted in Eugene Batchelder's Romance of the Sea-Serpent, or The Ichthyosaurus, a bizarre narrative poem about a sea serpent that terrorizes the coast of Massachusetts, destroys a huge ship in mid-ocean, repasts on human remains gruesomely with sharks and whales, attends a Harvard commencement (where he has been asked to speak), [and] shocks partygoers by appearing at a Newport ball...'' David S. Reynolds