In the second stanza of one of this man's poems, the speaker asks, "Has not CONSCRIPTION still the power to wield /
In the second stanza of one of this man's poems, the speaker asks, "Has not CONSCRIPTION still the power to wield / Her annual faulchion o'er the human field?" That poem begins by asking, "Black fool, why winter here?" This founder of the American Mercury gushed, "Let our occident stream bear the young hero's name" in "On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis". He described how "tentless troops are marbled with frost" during a Napoleonic campaign. This author of The Vision of Columbus wrote a poem while running for a seat in the French National Assembly that attacks those who "strive to stamp with disrepute / the luscious food, because it feeds the brute" and notes how the Pennsylvanians insult it by calling it mush. For 10 points, name this early American author of "Advice to a Raven in Russia" and "The Hasty-Pudding".
In the second stanza of one of this man's poems, the speaker asks, "Has not CONSCRIPTION still the power to wield /
Joel Barlow