John Trumbull (poet)

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This article is about the American poet. For the American painter, see John Trumbull. For the American politician, see John H. Trumbull.

John Trumbull by his cousin, the painter of the same name, 1793

John Trumbull (April 24, 1750 – May 11, 1831) was an American poet.

Biography

Trumbull was born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational preacher. At the age of seven he passed his entrance examinations at Yale, but did not enter until 1763; he graduated in 1767, studied law there, and in 1771–1773 was a

While studying at Yale he had contributed in 1769–1770 ten essays, called "The Meddler", imitating The Spectator, to the Boston Chronicle, and in 1770 similar essays, signed " The Correspondent" to the Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy. ^[1]

While a tutor he wrote his first satire in verse, The Progress of Dulness (1772–1773), an attack in three poems on educational methods of his time. His great poem, which ranks him with Philip Freneau and Francis Hopkinson as an American political satirist of the period of the War of Independence, was M'Fingal, of which the first canto, "The Town-Meeting", appeared in 1776 (dated 1775).^[1] ^[2]

After the war Trumbull was a rigid Federalist, and with the "Hartford Wits" David Humphreys, Joel Barlow and Lemuel Hopkins, wrote the Anarchiad, a poem directed against the enemies of a firm central government.^[1]

Works

The Progress of Dulness (1772–73)
M'Fingal (1775–82)

Commemoration

Trumbull Avenue in Detroit is named after him.
John Trumbull Primary School in Watertown, CT
M'Fingal Rd. in Watertown, CT was named after his poem.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chisholm 1911.
↑ Brian Pelanda, Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787 58 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 431, 438 (2011).

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trumbull, John (poet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press ; Endnotes:

See the memoir in the Hartford edition of Trumbull's Poetical Works (2 vols., 1820)
James Hammond Trumbull's The Origin of “McFingal” (Morrisania, New York, 1868)
M. C. Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution (New York 1897).

External links

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Charles William Everest, ed. (1873). "John Trumbull LL.D.". The poets of Connecticut: with biographical sketches. A. S. Barnes.
Brian Pelanda, Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787 58 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 431 (2011).

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Name	Trumbull, John
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Short description	American poet
Date of birth	April 24, 1750
Place of birth
Date of death	May 11, 1831
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