Richard Alsop

Richard Alsop (1761–1815) was a poet and satirist of Middletown, Connecticut, associated with the Connecticut Wits and a co-author of the satires The Echo and The Political Greenhouse.

Griswold included 1 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.