His prose included the letters of a character named "Robert Slender" and a series of stories about a defrocked priest named Hezekiah Salem.
His prose included the letters of a character named "Robert Slender" and a series of stories about a defrocked priest named Hezekiah Salem. His poem "To Sir Toby" decried the treatment of slaves on a plantation, where he had worked as a secretary, while his "On the Religion of Nature" revised the views expressed in his darkly comic poem "Pestilence," about the yellow fever outbreak. At Princeton, he co-authored Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca in Arabia and "On the Rising Glory of America," with Hugh Henry Brackenridge. But he is best known for his political writing at The National Gazette and for poems describing the beauty of a flower's short life and the solemnity of a native cemetery. For ten points, name this "Poet of the American Revolution" who wrote "The Wild Honey Suckle" and "The Indian Burying Ground."
His prose included the letters of a character named "Robert Slender" and a series of stories about a defrocked priest named Hezekiah Salem.
Philip {Freneau}