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Benjamin Tompson

 
Works: Works by Benjamin Tompson
(1642-1714)

1676New Englands Crisis; or A Brief Narrative, of New Englands Lamentable Estate at Present.... and New-Englands Tears for Her Present Miseries. Tompson, the first known native-born New England poet, provides in New Englands Crisis a satirical treatment in heroic couplets of King Philip's War and its causes--moral and spiritual decline. It is the first imaginative account of war in America. It is incorporated in the longer work New-Englands Tears for Her Present Miseries.

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Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more