Todd, C: Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, LL. D., Poet, Stat

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Todd, C: Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, LL. D., Poet, Stat

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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, LL. D., Poet, Statesman, Philosopher: With Extracts From His Works and Hitherto Unpublished Poems

The writer admits that the present work is the fruit of his interest in his subject - an interest arising rather from propinquity than from any particular sympathy with the poet's political or religious views.

Born and reared almost in sight of Barlow's birth-place, the writer early became interested in his history, and with the knowledge of so much that was really noble and useful in his career, came the desire to present it fairly and honestly to his countrymen. After he had been en gaged on the work for several years, the death of Prof. Lemuel G. Olmsted, a grandnephew of the poet, placed at his disposal the vast mass of Barlow's literary remains, which that gentleman had accumulated by fifty years of painstaking labor. These letters and papers, after hav ing been carefully sifted, have been freely used, and form the bulk of the volume. In preparing the work the aim of the writer has been to give details rather than gener alizations; to present his subject as he lived rather than ideally, and to this end he has told his story, wherever practicable, by the letters and writings of his subject.

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