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Benjamin Franklin
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Noun1.Benjamin Franklin - printer whose success as an author led him to take up politicsBenjamin Franklin - printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
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Cavitch suggests that elegy "remains quarantined within the space of disparagement carved out by two trenchant and memorable satires: At one end, Benjamin Franklin's seventh Silence Dogood letter (1722)," which suggested that elegies were provincial and hypocritical, to "the other end, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)" with its famous "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd" (3-4), and its sentimentalism.
Max Cavitch. American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans ... by Tener, Robert L. / African American Review
In 1722, he secretly writes a series of letters, signing them Silence Dogood, for James's weekly newspaper, the New-England Courant.
A remarkable man by Junior Scholastic
 
 
 
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