One of this author's poems describes a plantation as a place where "Stygian paintings light and shade renew pictures of hell,
One of this author's poems describes a plantation as a place where "Stygian paintings light and shade renew pictures of hell, that Virgil's pencil drew." That anti-slavery work by this poet begins, "If there exists a hell the case is clear, [the title person's] slaves enjoy that portion here." In another work by this poet, a man says, "If that was purgatory, this is hell" about a location that is described as a "slaughter-house, yet hospital in name." Another of his works ends, (*) "And Reason's self shall bow the knee to shadows and delusions here." The speaker of that poem states, that "in spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep." This poet of "To Sir Toby" wrote a six-canto diatribe about his imprisonment on the HMS Jersey. He wrote that "the hunter still the deer pursues" in a poem inspired by a culture's practice of burying corpses sitting-down. For 10 points, name this poet of The British Prison Ship and "The Indian Burying Ground," the "Poet of the American Revolution."
One of this author's poems describes a plantation as a place where "Stygian paintings light and shade renew pictures of hell, that Virgil's pencil drew.
Philip  Freneau