McFingal

McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town-meeting is a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull. ^[1]

This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Thomas Gage's Proclamation, published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of August 1775; it portrays a Scottish Loyalist, McFingal, and-his Whig opponent, Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams. This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a fourth canto was published in 1782.

1st edition

• Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London coffee-house. 1775.

Source

• US State Department; Outline of American Literature
• Library of Congress

References

1. ^ See Pelanda, Brian. Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Vol. 58, p. 431,437-442, 2011.