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Joseph Green (poet)

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on Seeing His Pictures". He also wrote "The Poet's Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us'd to call his Muse", "On Mr. B—s's singing an Hymn of his own composing", "To the Author of the Poetry in the last Weekly Journal", "A True Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of
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Orange's Nuptials at Portsmouth", "Inscription under Revd. Jn. Checkley's Picture", "A fig for your learning, I tell you the Town" and "Hail! D––p––t of wondrous fame".
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He has been called "the foremost wit of his day." He often exchanged parodies and satiric poems with another Boston wit,
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His "Entertainment for a Winter's Evening" is a satire on Boston's first Masonic procession, held in 1749.
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers
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Joseph Green's satirical poetry includes "To Mr. B Occasioned by His Verse" and "To Mr.
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of 1778. He died in London on December 11, 1780. In his will, he left 100
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Boston
Province of Massachusetts Bay
Harvard University

in 1743
New Light
Boston
Province of Massachusetts Bay
Harvard University
Mather Byles
Smibert
attestation
Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Loyalist
American Revolution
Massachusetts Banishment Act
pounds
slave
"Specimens of American Poetry, Samuel Kettell"


The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography


ISBN
978-0-465-01850-5
Joseph Green Summary
"American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"

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