Poetry Codex

American

John Neal

1793–1876

John Neal (1793–1876) was a Portland, Maine, novelist, critic and poet, and an early champion of an American literature.

Griswold included 9 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.

Poems (9)

  1. Invocation to the Deity
  2. A Cavalcade Seen at Sunset Through a Gorge
  3. Approach of Evening
  4. An Indian Apollo
  5. Morning After a Battle
  6. Music of the Night
  7. Night
  8. Ontario
  9. Men of the North

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