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Sumner, Charles Pinckncy. The Compass. Boston, 1795. [Didactic and philosophic.]

Swanwick, John. Poems on Several Occasions by a Congressman from Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1797.

Touchstone, Geoffry [pseud.]. He Wou'd be a Poet; an Heroic Poem. Philadelphia, 1796. [Satire on Swanwick.]

—The House of Wisdom in a Bustle. Philadelphia, 1798. [Political satire.]

Trumbull, John. Poetical Works. 2 vols. Hartford, 1820.

—An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, Tutor at Yale College. Etc. N. p., n. d. [1771].

—The Progress of Dullness. Part I. The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless. * N. p. [New Haven], 1772. * Exeter, 1794.

—The Progress of Dullness. Part II. The Life and Character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical Memory. * N. p. [New Haven], 1773.

—The Progress of Dullness. Part III. The Adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the Colony of Connecticut. * New Haven, 1773.

—An Elegy on the Times. Boston, 1774. New Haven, 1775.

—McFingal; a Modern Epic Poem. Canto I, or The Town Meeting. Philadelphia, * 1775 [includes what is now Cantos I and II]; 1776. * London, 1776.

—McFingal; a Modern Epic in Four Cantos. Hartford, 1782 [first complete ed.]. * Boston, 1785. * Philadelphia, 1791. * London, 1792, 1793. * New York, 1795. * Boston, 1799. * Baltimore, 1812. * Augusta, 1813. * Hallowell, 1813.

—McFingal; an Epic Poem. Introduction and Notes by Lossing, B. J., 1860, 1864, 1881.

See, also, The Anarchiad.

Tucker, Nathaniel. The Bermudian. Williamsburg, 1774. [Descriptive.]

Tyler, Royal. Poems were published in Dennie's Farmer's Weekly Museum and Dennie's Port Folio, and have never been collected. Specimens are given in Kettell and in Buckingham's Specimens of Newspaper Literature.

See, also, Bibliographies to Book II, Chaps. 11, in, and vi.

The Untaught Bard; An Original Work. [Anon.] 1804. [Descriptive and philosophic poems.]

Vail, Joseph. Noah's Flood; a Poem in Two Parts. New London, 1796. [Paraphrase of Bible, with a sermon.]

Warren, Mrs. Mercy. Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous. Boston, 1790.

Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London, 1773.

—Poems and Letters of Phillis Wheatley. First Collected Edition. Ed. Heartman, C. F. 1915.

[Fifteen editions have been published. For complete bibliography, see Heartman, C. F.]

Williams, John. The Hamiltoniad. Boston, 1804. [Personal and political satire.]

Wilson, Alexander. Poems and Literary Prose. Ed. Grosart, A. 2 vols. Paisley, 1876.

Winchester, Elhanan. The Process and Empire of Christ. Brattleboro, 1805. [Biblical epic.]