McFingal

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McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town-meeting was a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull.

This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Gage's Proclamation, published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of August 1775; it portrays a Scottish Loyalist, McFingal, and-his Whig opponent, Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams. This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a fourth canto was published in 1782.

[edit] 1st edition

• Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London coffee-house. 1775.

[edit] Source

• US State Department; Outline of American Literature
• Library of Congress