From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)  Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic spirit combined with an inflexible temper. The Hartford Wits, all of them undoubted patriots, reflected...

PAL: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)  Edited with a critical introd. by Harry Hayden Clark. NY: Hafner Pub. Co 1960, 1929. PS755 .A5 C6 The poems of Philip Freneau, poet of the American Revolution 1902) Edited for the Princeton Historical Association by Fred Lewis Pattee. NY:...