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poem was published, if indeed the former was ever completed, and trace of neither has been found among the poet's scanty literary remains. Both, we suspect, were derivative from Freneau's favorite classic models of the eighteenth century, for certainly we should not expect from a veteran of sixty-four the agility necessary to keep pace with changing literary styles. In diction and in spirit Freneau already represented a time that was past. To his more progressive neighbors in Monmouth County he must even have seemed a strange old man. Slightly stooped, but wiry, with deep-set grey eyes which when he spoke flashed brightly to relieve the habitual melancholy of his expression, he scorned innovation in dress or in deportment. Proudly wearing his own grey hair, he ridiculed those among his contemporaries who sported the more fashionable-"foppish" was his word-tye-wig. He was known as an opinionated galfer who scorned display, who wore "smallclothes" and cocked hat as long as he lived, and who would neither eat nor drink nor wear anything not of domestic origin. And so with his verse. It was of an era now past, in an idiom already strangely out of place beside the smooth and modern phra
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- Author
- Lewis Leary (editor)
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781978811751
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities