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United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Poetry

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    The probationary odes of Jonathan Pindar, Esq. a cousin of Peter's, and candidate for the post of poet laureat to the C.U.S In two parts. [Two lines in Latin from Horace].

    Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827. | Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796] (Copyright secured)
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    The Democratiad , a poem, in retaliation, for the "Philadelphia jockey club" [Two lines of verse] By a gentleman of Connecticut.

    Hopkins, Lemuel, 1750-1801. | Date: 1796
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    A congratulatory epistle to the redoubtable "Peter Porcupine." On his "complete triumph over the once towering but fallen and despicable faction, in the United States:" a poem, by Peter Grievous, Junr. [Two lines from Swift] To which is annexed The vision, a dialogue between Marat and Peter Porcupine, in the infernal regions.

    Grievous, Peter, Junr. | Date: 1796
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    The guillotina, or A Democratic dirge , a poem. By the author of the "Democratiad." [Twelve lines of verse].

    Hopkins, Lemuel, 1750-1801. | Date: [1796]
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    Democracy an epic poem, by Aquiline Nimble-Chops, democrat. Canto first.

    Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823. | Date: [1794]

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