Research Catalog

Title

The last poems of Philip Freneau; edited by Lewis Leary.

Author

Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832

Publication

New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1945.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leary, Lewis Gaston, 1906-
• Leary, Lewis (Lewis Gaston), 1906-1990
• Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990

Description

xiii, 136 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Stanzas on the great comet : to Ismenia -- The neglected husband -- Stanzas written for a lad -- To Mr. [Jean-Pierre] Blanchard, the celebrated aeronaut -- The fortunate blacksmith -- Salutary maxims,or, The way of the world : to a misanthrope, or man-hater -- Stanzas written in an ancient burial ground -- Epitaph upon a Spanish horse -- The tye-wig -- Letitia -- A dialogue between a news-printer and his cash-collector -- The great western canal -- The re-opening of the Park Theatre [i.e., Park Theater] -- Jersey City -- The city poet -- Elijah, the New England emigrant -- To a young friend, with some maple sugar -- The youth of the mind -- Prologue to Kotzebue's play [The stranger] -- The military ground -- On the loss of the packet ship Albion : Captain Williams of New York -- To a young farmer -- To a young person addicted to the gaming table -- Philosophical fortitude -- General Lefevre Denouette -- On the civilization of the western aboriginal country -- Lines written at Demarest's field -- Verses written on leaving a great house of much ceremony, but little sincerity, or hospitality -- Verses on an Upper Street physician -- Lines to a lady -- The Passaick Garden -- Bonaparte -- A midnight storm in the Gulph [i.e., Gulf] Stream -- To a lady -- To a lady remarkably fond of sleep -- The arrival at Indian Sam's (or, Wee-Quali's) wigwam -- Circumnavigation -- Ode on a remote perspective view of Princeton College -- A transient view of Monticello -- On observing a large red-streak apple -- A fragment of Bion [of Smyrna] -- Answer to a letter of despondency -- To a New-England poet -- On a widow lady (very rich and very penurious) -- On the death of Robert Fulton -- General de La Fayette on his expected visit to America -- Stanzas made at the interment of a sailor -- Winter.

LCCN

^^^46005200^

OCLC

• 2684234
• SCSB-11120193

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library