The Columbiad: A Poem
by Joel Barlow
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About This Book
Celebrating the victory of American ideals, this poem is a patriotic epic written in neoclassical heroic couplets. Displaying a vigorous support of Jeffersonian democratic idealism, this reflects the sentiment of "The Vision of Columbus," late 18th-century America's most popular poem.
Chapters (77)(click to expand)
- The Columbiad
- A Poem.
- 1809
- Preface.
- Introduction.
- The Columbiad. Book I.
- Argument.
- Book II
- Argument.
- Book III
- Argument.
- Book IV
- Argument.
- Book V
- Argument.
- Book VI
- Argument.
- Book VII
- Argument.
- Book VIII
- Argument.
- Book IX
- Argument.
- Book X
- Argument.
- Notes.
- No. 1
- No. 2
- No. 3
- No. 4
- No. 5
- No. 6
- No. 7
- No. 8
- No. 9
- No. 10
- No. 11
- No. 12
- No. 13
- No. 14
- No. 15
- No. 16
- No. 17
- No. 18
- No. 19
- No. 20
- No. 21
- No. 22
- No. 23
- No. 24
- No. 25
- No. 26
- No. 27
- No. 28
- No. 29
- No. 30
- No. 31
- No. 32
- No. 33
- No. 34
- No. 35
- No. 36
- No. 37
- No. 38
- No. 39
- No. 40
- No. 41
- No. 42
- No. 43
- No. 44
- No. 45
- No. 46
- No. 47
- No. 48
- No. 49
- No. 50
- Postscript.
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