Miscellaneous Poems E-book
Author: Philip Freneau
Genre: History / Biography, Literature, Poetry
Freneau, Philip (1752-1832) American poet best known for his
patriotic political works. Freneau was equally adept at descriptive
verse on nature and the American Indian. He surpassed his contemporaries
in quantity of poems produced, and, some say, in quality. Freneau
graduated from Princeton in 1771 and worked at various times throughout
his life as a newspaper editor, government official, trader and farmer.
He edited the "National Gazette" from 1791-1793.
Miscellaneous Poems (1786) A selection of poems from "Poems of Philip
Freneau," (1786) and the third edition of "Poems Written During the
Revolutionary War, etc." (1809). Among the nine pieces included here
are the elegiac lyric "Eutaw Springs," and the well-known "Indian
Burying-Ground." Also included, among others, are "On a Travelling
Speculator," "The Wild Honeysuckle," "On the Ruins of a Country Inn,"
and "Death's Epitaph."
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