The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)

Philip Freneau earned the title "Poet of the American Revolution" by doing what no other writer of his era managed: capturing the raw idealism, the terror, and the strange beauty of a nation being born in real time. This third volume gathers poems that move from the intimate to the incisive, from tender reflections on the New Jersey shore where Freneau made his home to biting satirical verses targeting the political betrayals and hollow aristocrats of the early republic. His verse carries the crackle of fresh-printed broadsides and the stillness of coastal dawns. As an editor who helmed multiple revolutionary papers, Freneau understood how language could ignite a populace, and these poems still bear that electric charge. Here you'll find the man who called himself "the poet of the revolution" wrestling with what freedom actually meant when the war ended and the real work of a nation began.