John Trumbull

(24 April 1750 - 11 May 1831)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

ELEGY, On the DEATH of MR. BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN, TUTOR of YALE COLLEGE, who was drowned in his Passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771. ()
THE PROGRESS OF DULNESS. [Part I.] (); The Progress of DULNESS. [Part II.] (); The Progress of DULNESS. [Part III.] The Progress of Coquetry. ()

Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. An elegy, on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, tutor of Yale College, who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771. [New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1771]. 1 sheet ([1] p.) ( OTA N09628)
- ELEGY, On the DEATH of MR. BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN, TUTOR of YALE COLLEGE, who was drowned in his Passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771.
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness. Part third, and last: sometimes called, The progress of coquetry, or The adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the colony of Connecticut. Containing advice of the ladies to Harriet's mother concerning education. Address to parents, Harriet's studies, skill in fashions, scandal and romances; with the consequent occurrences of her life by way of illustration of the moral of the work. : For the use of the ladies and their parents. : [Two lines in Latin from Virgil.] New-Haven;: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, near the college, 1773. viii, [1], 10-28 p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10282)
- The Progress of DULNESS. [Part III.] The Progress of Coquetry.
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same. : The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text.] The second edition, corrected. [New Haven]: Re-printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], 1773 in the year M,DCC,LXXIII.. vi, [1], 8-20 p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10280)
- THE PROGRESS OF DULNESS. [Part I.]
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory; being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41°. West longitude 72°:30'; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind. [New Haven]: Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], 1773 in the year M,DCC,LXXIII.. x, [1], 12-27, [1] p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10281)
- The Progress of DULNESS. [Part II.]

Source editions

Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. An elegy, on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, tutor of Yale College, who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771. [New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1771]. 1 sheet ([1] p.) ( OTA N09628)
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness. Part third, and last: sometimes called, The progress of coquetry, or The adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the colony of Connecticut. Containing advice of the ladies to Harriet's mother concerning education. Address to parents, Harriet's studies, skill in fashions, scandal and romances; with the consequent occurrences of her life by way of illustration of the moral of the work. : For the use of the ladies and their parents. : [Two lines in Latin from Virgil.] New-Haven;: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, near the college, 1773. viii, [1], 10-28 p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10282)
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same. : The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text.] The second edition, corrected. [New Haven]: Re-printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], 1773 in the year M,DCC,LXXIII.. vi, [1], 8-20 p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10280)
Trumbull, John, 1750-1831. The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory; being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41°. West longitude 72°:30'; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind. [New Haven]: Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], 1773 in the year M,DCC,LXXIII.. x, [1], 12-27, [1] p. ; 17 cm. (4to) ( OTA N10281)

Bibliography

ANB 2001027

Editions

Eberwein, Jane Donohue, ed. Early American Poetry. London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. Print.

Biography

Gimmestad, Victor E. John Trumbull. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974. Print.

Reference works

Radcliffe, David H., ed. John Trumbull (1750-1831). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33240.

Criticism

Dowling, William C. Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. Print.
Grasso, Christopher. Print, poetry, and politics: John Trumbull and the transformation of public discourse in Revolutionary America. Early American Literature 30(1) (1995): 5. Print.
Post, Constance J. Revolutionary Dialogics in American Mock-Epic Poetry: Double-Voicing in M’Fingal, The Anarchiad, and The Hasty Pudding. Studies in American Humor 6 (1988): 40–51. Print.