American Literature / Unit 5 AML 0424 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Philip Freneau, the Poet of the Revolution
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The idea
Freneau met James Madison and the novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge at the College of New Jersey, where they wrote The Rising Glory of America. His later poems include "The Wild Honey Suckle" and "The Indian Burying Ground", turning from politics to mortality.
In practice
A war satirist, and a poet of graves.
Where people slip
His best poems are the least political ones.
Your place on the trail
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