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See also:BARLOW, See also:JOEL (1754-1812) , See also:American poet and politician, See also:born in Redding, See also:Fairfield See also:county, See also:Connecticut, on the 24th of See also:March 1754. He graduated at Yale in 1778, was a See also:post-See also:graduate student there for two years, and from See also:September 178o until the See also:close of the revolutionary See also:war was See also:chaplain in a See also:Massachusetts See also:brigade. He then, in 1783, removed to See also:Hartford, Connecticut, established there in See also:July 1784 a weekly See also:paper, the American See also:Mercury, with which he was connected for a See also:year, and in 1786 was admitted to the See also:bar. At Hartford he was a member of a See also:group of See also:young writers including Lemuel See also:Hopkins, See also:David See also:Humphreys, and See also:John See also:Trumbull, known in American See also:literary See also:history as the " Hartford Wits." He contributed to the Anarchiad, a See also:series of satirico-See also:political papers, and in 1787 published a See also:long and ambitious poem, The See also:Vision of See also:Columbus, which gave him a considerable literary reputation and was once much read. In 1788 he went to See also:France as the See also:agent of the Scioto See also:Land See also:Company, his See also:object being to sell lands and enlist immigrants. He seems to have been ignorant of the fraudulent See also:character of the company, which failed disastrously in 1790. He had previously, however, induced the company of Frenchmen, who ultimately founded See also:Gallipolis, See also:Ohio, to emigrate to See also:America. In See also:Paris he became a liberal in See also:religion and an advanced republican in politics. He remained abroad for several years, spending much of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:London; was a member of the See also:obnoxious " London Society for Constitutional See also:Information "; published various See also:radical essays, including a See also:volume entitled See also:Advice to the Privileged Orders (1792), which was proscribed by the See also:British See also:government; and was made a See also:citizen of France in 1792. He was American See also:consul at See also:Algiers in 1795-1797, securing the See also:release of American prisoners held for See also:ransom, and negotiating a treaty with See also:Tripoli (1796). He returned to America in 180.5, and lived near Washing-ton, D.C., until 1811, when he became American plenipotentiary to France, charged with negotiating a commercial treaty with See also:Napoleon, and with securing the restitution of confiscated American See also:property or See also:indemnity therefor. He was summoned for an interview with Napoleon at Wilna, but failed to see the See also:emperor there; became involved in the See also:retreat of the See also:French See also:army; and, overcome by exposure, died at the See also:Polish See also:village of Zarnowiec on the 24th of See also:December 1812. In 1807 he had published in a sumptuous volume the Columbiad, an enlarged edition of his Vision of Columbus, more pompous even than the See also:original; but, though it added to his reputation in some quarters, on the whole it was not well received, and it has subsequently been much ridiculed. The poem for which he is now best known is his See also:mock heroic Hasty See also:Pudding (1793). Besides the writings mentioned above, he published See also:Conspiracy of See also:Kings, a Poem addressed to
the Inhabitants of See also:Europe from another See also:Quarter of the Globe (1792); View of the Public See also:Debt, Receipts and See also:Expenditure of the See also:United States (1800); and the Political Writings of Joel Barlow (2nd ed., 1996). He also published an edition, " corrected and enlarged," of See also:Isaac See also:Watt's See also:Imitation of the See also:Psalms of David (1786).
See C. B. Todd's See also:Life and Letters of Joel Barlow (New See also:York and London, 1886) ; and a See also:chapter, " The Literary Strivings of Joel Barlow," in M. C. See also:Tyler's Three Men of Letters (New York and London, 1895).
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