Richard Alsop
Alsop, Richard (ôl'səp), 1761-1815, American author, b. Middletown, Conn. Best remembered as one of the Connecticut Wits, he collaborated with Theodore Dwight and others in writing light satiric verse for the Political Greenhouse and the Echo.
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Works by Richard Alsop
(1761-1815)
| 1791 | The Echo. A Federalist verse satire first published in twenty sections of the American Mercury. The satire ridicules Jefferson and other anti-Federalists. |
| 1799 | The Political Greenhouse. A popular verse satire that gains a great deal of attention for its Federalist attack on Thomas Jefferson, the Democrats, France, and the Jacobins. The poem, which had first appeared in the Connecticut Courant, was quoted in Congress to illustrate Connecticut's intent to involve the United States in a war against France. |
| 1800 | "A Poem, Sacred to the Memory of George Washington." Among the most widely read of the poetic eulogies of Washington, the poem is dedicated to Martha Washington and recalls the first president's service to the country and his nature. |
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