Joel Barlow

(24 March 1754 - 26 December 1812)
Barlow, Joel (1754–1812)

© National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Barlow, Joel  (1754–1812)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

Source editions

  • Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. Yale College. The prospect of peace. A poetical composition, delivered in Yale-College, at the public examination, of the candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts; July 23, 1778. / By Joel Barlow, A.B. New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1778 M,DCC,LXXXVIII. 12 p. ; 17 cm. (12mo) ( OTA N12454)
  • Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. The conspiracy of kings; a poem: addressed to the inhabitants of Europe, from another quarter of the world. / By Joel Barlow, author of The vision of Columbus, Advice to the privileged orders, &c. &c. ; [Six lines of verse.] [Newburyport, Mass.]: Printed and sold by Robinson & Tucker: Newburyport--, 1794. viii, [1], 10-30, [2] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo) ( OTA N20295)
  • Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. The hasty-pudding: a poem, in three cantos. / Written at Chambery, in Savoy, January, 1793. ; [Two lines of quotations.] [New Haven: Printed by T. and S. Green, for Tiebout and O'Brien?, 1796]. 15, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo) ( OTA N22715)

Bibliography

ANB 1600077

Biography

  • Cantor, Milton. The Life of Joel Barlow. Unpub. doct. diss. Columbia University, 1954. Print.
  • Woodress, James. A Yankee’s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 [1958]. Print.

Criticism

  • Giles, Paul. 'To gird this watery globe': Freneau, Barlow, and American neoclassical poetry. Bannet, Eve Tavor; Manning, Susan, eds., Transatlantic literary studies, 1660–1830. Cambridge; New York: CUP, 2012. 139–153. Print.
  • McDonald, Will. Still personal: Joel Barlow and the publication of poetry in the 1780s. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 42(1) (2009): 89-104. Print.