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Philip Freneau  (1752-1832)


 
.Philip Freneau

Biographical sketch of Freneau by noted Americanist Emory Elliott
Entry on Freneau from the Cambridge History of English and American  Literature.
Information on Mt. Pleasant Hall, Freneau's house.
Freneau and his circle from the Outline of American Literature site
Brief biographical sketch of Freneau from americanpoems.com
Biographical sketch by noted Americanist David Shields from the Heath Anthology site.
Bibliography and Study Questions from Paul Reuben's PAL site
Teaching guide to Freneau from the Heath Anthology site.

Photograph courtesy of Itasca Community College
Works Available Online  (updated links)

Poems Relating to the American Revolution, with an introductory memoir and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck. New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1865. 

(Note: Michigan MOA does not allow easy linking of individual pages, so you must go to the page numbers listed here once you reach the site. Use the drop-down menu to go to the correct page.)
COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND. (p. 13)
THE DYING INDIAN.--Tomo-Chequi. (p. 15) (MOA)
THE INDIAN BURYING-GROUND. (p. 17) (Page image at Michigan MOA)
STANZAS OCCASIONED BY LORD BELLAMONT'S, LADY HAY'S, AND OTHER SKELETONS BEING DUG UP IN FORT GEORGE, NY 1790 (MOA, p. 19)


"To a Honey Bee"
"The Wild Honey Suckle"
"Death's Epitaph"
"The Parting Glass"
"On the Ruins of a Country Inn"
"On a Travelling Speculator"
"The Scurrilous Scribe"
"To a Caty-Did"
"Plato to Theon"
"Song of Thyrsis"
"Eutaw Springs"
"Epitaph" (from "The Fading Rose")



Comments to D. Campbell.