Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow (1754–1812) was an American poet and diplomat, born in Reading, Connecticut, and one of the Connecticut Wits. He is remembered for The Columbiad (1807) and the mock-pastoral The Hasty-Pudding.

Griswold included 5 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.