" For 10 points, name this early American poet of "The British Prison Ship," "The Wild Honey Suckle," and "The Indian Burying Ground," who is often called the "poet of the American Revolution."
This author wrote pro-French satirical letters under a pseudonym he described as "One of the Swinish Multitude," Robert Slender. This author described being taken to "A slaughter-house, yet hospital in name" in a poem about the torturous conditions of the "piles for slaughter, floating on the floods," which was inspired by the capture of the Aurora. A poem by this author laments that "Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power" will leave no vestige of the title object, which is described as a "fair flower, which dost comely grow." The speaker of another of his poems imagines a place where "the hunter still the deer pursues" alongside "the painted chief, and pointed spear." For 10 points, name this early American poet of "The British Prison Ship," "The Wild Honey Suckle," and "The Indian Burying Ground," who is often called the "poet of the American Revolution."
This author wrote pro-French satirical letters under a pseudonym he described as "One of the Swinish Multitude," Robert Slender.
Philip Morin {Freneau}