American

Isaac Clason

c. 1796–1830


Isaac Clason (c. 1796–1830) was a New York poet and graduate of Columbia College (1813) who wrote the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cantos of Don Juan (1825) as a continuation of Byron's poem.

Griswold included 4 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.

  1. Napoleon
  2. Jealousy
  3. Early Love
  4. All Is Vanity

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