Opis: Philip Freneau, Vol. 2 of 2 - Lancey Edward F. De

Excerpt from Philip Freneau, Vol. 2 of 2: The Huguenot Patriot Poet of the Revolution, and His Poetry

Born in Frankfort Street in New York, in 1752, and in that city receiving his school education, he graduated from Nassau Hall, now Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1771, at the age of nineteen, two of his classmates being the celebrated Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and James Madison, afterward the fourth President of the United States.

Collegian, law student, newspaper writer, sailor, politician, sea captain, government translator of modern languages in the State Department, newspaper owner, editor, and publisher, in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, afterward and for many years a sea captain again, and merchant, and later a retired gentleman and farmer, Philip Freneau was always a poet throughout every phase of this singularly varied career. From his boyhood to his death he was a votary of the poetic muse.

A Frenchman and a Huguenot on both sides of the house, the great quickness and brilliancy of his mind attested the former, while the firmness of his belief in his opinions proved the latter. Andre Fresneau (the "s" was dropped from the spelling of the name after the middle of the last century), his grandfather, one of the early Huguenots in New York, and a merchant, married Marie Morin in that city, a daughter of Pierre Morin, or Morine, as sometimes spelled, whose name appears in the records of the "Eglise du St. Esprit," in New York, as the head of one of the families of that church in 1709. And his written name can be seen in the fac-simile of the signatures of the heads of those families, in the first volume of the "Collections" of this Huguenot Society of America. This Pierre Morin was also the maternal grandfather of John Morin Scott, the noted Whig lawyer and Revolutionary general. Thus Freneau and he were both cotemporaries and first cousins. The two great-grandsons of the latter were my own intimate friends and schoolmates in my boyhood in Philadelphia, one of whom still resides in that city. Andr Fresneau and Marie Morin had two sons, Andr and Pierre. The latter was the father of the poet, who was born on the 2nd of January, 1752. The two brothers were wine merchants in New York, and successful ones.

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Nazwa: Philip Freneau, Vol. 2 of 2 The Huguenot Patriot Poet of the Revolution, and His Poetry (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Lancey Edward F. De
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331305965
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 24
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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