Works from his Caribbean period include "The Beauty of Santa Cruz" and his best poem "The House of Night," but he is better known for patriotic verses like "General Gage's Confession."
This writer composed burlesques like "Slender's Journey" and the collaboration "Father Bombo's Pilgrimage" after learning to debate with the Cliosophic Society at Princeton, though his Neoclassical poems like "Song of Thyrsis" and his first original poem "Pictures of Columbus" found more success. Works from his Caribbean period include "The Beauty of Santa Cruz" and his best poem "The House of Night," but he is better known for patriotic verses like "General Gage's Confession." FTP, name this "poet of the American Revolution" who wrote "The British Prison Ship" and "The Indian Burial Ground."
This writer composed burlesques like "Slender's Journey" and the collaboration "Father Bombo's Pilgrimage" after learning to debate with the Cliosophic Society at Princeton, though his Neoclassical poems like "Song of Thyrsis" and his first original poem "Pictures of Columbus" found more success.
Philip Freneau