Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
Auteur de The Columbiad: A Poem
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Joel Barlow
Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general… (1956) 12 exemplaires
The hasty-pudding; a poem in three cantos written at Chambery in Savoy during January MDCCLXXXXIII (2010) 7 exemplaires
The Political Writings Of Joel Barlow: Containing Advice To The Privileged Orders Letter To The National Convention;… (1796) 5 exemplaires
Lettre à la Convention nationale de France, sur les vices de la Constitution de 1791, et sur… (1792) 3 exemplaires
The Anarchiad: a New England Poem, 1786-1787 3 exemplaires
An oration : delivered at the North Church in Hartford, at the meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati,… 2 exemplaires
Oration delivered at Washington, July fourth, 1809 1 exemplaire
A letter, addressed to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French revolution, and the necessity of ado 1 exemplaire
The vision of Columbus. A poem, in nine books. By Joel Barlow. The fifth edition, corrected. To which is added, the… 1 exemplaire
The vision of Columbus a poem, in nine books ; with explanatory notes ; from a revised edition of the author 1 exemplaire
Vision Of Columbus 1 exemplaire
JOEL BARLOW: Collected Works 1 exemplaire
Christians last day : sermon, 1 Thes. 4:18 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 255 exemplaires
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2006) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Contributeur — 122 exemplaires
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1754-03-24
- Date de décès
- 1812-12-26
- Lieu de sépulture
- Krakow, Poland
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Redding, Connecticut, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Zarnowiec, Poland
- Lieux de résidence
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- Dartmouth College
Yale University - Professions
- chaplain (military)
consul (U.S. ∙ to Algiers)
ambassador (U.S. ∙ to France)
poet
historian
politician (tout afficher 8)
lawyer
land agent - Relations
- Humphreys, David (friend)
- Organisations
- The Connecticut Wits (aka The Hartford Wits)
- Prix et distinctions
- He was one of the contributing editors of the first agricultural magazine in America, the Agricultural Museum.
Membres
Critiques
Oration delivered at Washington, July fourth, 1809 par 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 81
- Popularité
- #222,754
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 15
- Favoris
- 1
