Gloucester has been home to great writers for centuries. Judith Sargent Murray penned her feminist poems. T. S. Eliot spent nearly every summer of his boyhood in Gloucester and themes of the sea often turn up in his poetry. Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini maintained a poetic dialogue in the 20th century on the topic of citizenship. Add to these the authors who blew into Gloucester to write one work, like Rudyard Kipling and his “Captains Courageous,” and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow with “The Wreck of the Hesperus”, among others.