The Ocean Bards British Poetry and the War at Sea, 1793-1815

«Hahn's research and reading seem encyclopedic: the book is filled with facts and moves authoritatively between the canonical poets and the 'Ocean Bards'. [...] It is a "major book on poetry."» (SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900)
«Professor Hahn makes a strong case for our examining this often and easily dismissed poetry as an important indicator of its contemporary cultural 'mise en scene'. [...] a "very readable work". [...] This book belongs in university libraries.» (The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)
«...this pioneer author has pointed the way...» (International Journal of Maritime History)
«The book's deep archival research is admirable in making these poems and excellent commentary available, much as Paul Fussell did in his Great War book.» (Professor Donald Mell, University of Delaware)
«Hahn's valuable recovery of these poems reveals how central the figure of Jack Tar was to the period's cultural imagination and how crucial to the war effort and recruitment was the work of largely forgotten writers.» ("Romanticism and War" Simon Bainbridge in: Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018, pp. 1-18, p. 8)