Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow (24 Maret 1754 – 26 Desember 1812) adalah seorang penyair, diplomat, dan politikus asal Amerika Serikat.Modern biographies are James Woodress, A Yankee's Odyssey:the life of Joel Barlow, 1958, and Samuel Bernstein, Joel Barlow: A Connecticut Yankee in an age of revolution, 1985; an essay on Barlow's ruminations on the planetary hydrological cycle is part of Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory 1995:245ff. Ia merupakan pendukung revolusi Prancis dan demokrasi Jefferson.

Pada masanya, Barlow dikenal karena menulis Vision of Columbus,Brian Pelanda, Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787 58 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 431, 442-448 (2011). walaupun pembaca modern lebih mengenali karyanya yang berjudul The Hasty-Pudding (1793). Ia juga membantu merumuskan Traktat Tripoli pada tahun 1796, yang mengandung kalimat kontroversial "pemerintah Amerika Serikat tidak dilandaskan pada agama Kristen..."Boston, Rob, "Joel Barlow And The Treaty With Tripoli: A Tangled Tale Of Pirates, A Poet And The True Meaning Of The First Amendment", Church & State, Volume 50, No. 6, June 1997, hal 11–14.

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 The Conspiracy of Kings; A Poem: Addressed to the Inhabitants of Europe, from Another Quarter of the World (London, 1792) online PDF edition.
 Guide to Joel Barlow's works at Houghton Library , Harvard University

Kategori:Kelahiran 1754
Kategori:Kematian 1812
Kategori:Penyair Amerika Serikat
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