George Washington

Standard Name: Washington, George
Used Form: General Washington

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Sarah Wentworth Morton
In the year after this poem appeared, composer and organist Hans Gram (who had already set to music SWM 's Ode to the President) created an orchestral score (one of the earliest in America)...
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
Judith Stevens (later JSM ) wrote to her brother Winthrop (then encamped with Washington 's army at Valley Forge, at a low point in the War of Independence) to express her fears and her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Cook
Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Haswell Rowson
The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Wentworth Morton
These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God,
Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel.
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who emulates and surpasses the military...

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