Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
Autore di The Columbiad: A Poem
Sull'Autore
Joel Barlow was born on a Connecticut farm, in 1754. He was educated at Dartmouth College and then Yale University. He was a member of The Connecticut Wits, a group of nine ambitious young writers determined to celebrate as well as satirize the young American democracy. Timothy Dwight and John mostra altro Trumbul, two other famous members of the group, pursued their satiric inclinations until they became conservative Federalists in the face of Jeffersonian republicanism. Barlow went to Europe where he stayed for seventeen years. There, he became a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and saw to the publication of The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. While running for election as a deputy to the French National Assembly, Barlow wrote his best-known poem, the mock epic The Hasty Pudding, which brought him celebrity in his native land. When he returned to the United States in 1805, he turned away from his ponderous epic The Columbiad (1807), in which he celebrated the future of the United States in the context of deploring the European past. As a reward for his support of Jeffersonianism, President James Madison appointed him minister to France. Barlow followed Napoleon to Poland in an effort to persuade the emperor to favor U.S. commerce; however, Barlow narrowly missed Napoleon, who was returning to Europe with his defeated army. When Barlow was making his own return, he caught pneumonia and died. He was buried in a village near Cracow, Poland. Barlow is significant for his understanding that the American experience-and its translation into literature and the culture at large-was important in its own right, distinct from European history and aesthetics. His poetry, essays, and orations are infused with his witty perception of the colonialist's mission. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Joel Barlow
Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general… (1956) 12 copie
The hasty-pudding; a poem in three cantos written at Chambery in Savoy during January MDCCLXXXXIII (2010) 7 copie
The Political Writings Of Joel Barlow: Containing Advice To The Privileged Orders Letter To The National Convention;… (1796) 5 copie
Lettre à la Convention nationale de France, sur les vices de la Constitution de 1791, et sur… (1792) 3 copie
Vision Of Columbus 1 copia
JOEL BARLOW: Collected Works 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2006) — Collaboratore — 181 copie
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 25 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1754-03-24
- Data di morte
- 1812-12-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Krakow, Poland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Redding, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Zarnowiec, Poland
- Luogo di residenza
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Istruzione
- Dartmouth College
Yale University - Attività lavorative
- chaplain (military)
consul (U.S. ∙ to Algiers)
ambassador (U.S. ∙ to France)
poet
historian
politician (mostra tutto 8)
lawyer
land agent - Relazioni
- Humphreys, David (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- The Connecticut Wits (aka The Hartford Wits)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- He was one of the contributing editors of the first agricultural magazine in America, the Agricultural Museum.
Utenti
Recensioni
Oration delivered at Washington, July fourth, 1809 di Joel Barlow
"I was doubting what you could say, equal to your own reputation, on so hackneyed a subject. but you have really risen out of it with lustre, and pointed to others a field of great expansion." - Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 8 Oct. 1809 [PTJ:RS 1:588-590]
"I have safely recieved your favor from Amelia with the sheets of the Columbiad which it covered, and have given to them the hasty perusal which my less agreeable but more indispensable occupations have permitted ... the few moments I could spare to this object, I will say, were agreeably employed." - Thomas Jefferson to John Daly Burk, 21 Jun. 1801 [PTJ34:400-401]
A reprint of Barlow's political writings. No mention of the Jefferson-Barlow translation issue. Of interest, if you enjoy French Revolution studies.
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