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Freneau

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Fre·neau  (fr-n), Philip Morin Known as "the poet of the American Revolution." 1752-1832.
American poet noted for his satirical attacks on the British and for The British Prison-Ship (1781), an account of his wartime capture and imprisonment.
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The "Patriot Poet" Philip Freneau, wrote of the sense of desperation he experienced while being quartered below decks on the Scorpion:
Death barges of Wallabout Bay: during the War for Independence, the ... by Telzrow, Michael E. / The New American
Chapter 2, "The Poetics of Antislavery," surveys works by 15 poets--Anna Letitia Barbauld, Joel Barlow, William Cowper, Thomas Day, Theodore Dwight, Bryan Edwards, Philip Freneau, David Humphreys, Hannah More, Thomas Morris, William Roscoe, William Shenstone, John Singleton, Phillis Wheatley, and Ann Yearsley--whose verse makes use of what Gould names "the language of commercial exchange.
Philip Gould. Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the ... by Raybin, David / African American Review
Freneau in "The Indian Burying Ground" (1787) and Bryant in "The Prairies" (1832) adopt the ubi sunt mode, first about the mound builders, then about the Indians:
Taking anthologies seriously by Lauter, Paul / MELUS
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