Works:
Works by William Cliffton |
| 1796 | The Group; or, An Elegant Representation. The Pennsylvania poet collects political verses defending Jay's Treaty and a satire in which tradesmen and mechanics ignorantly discuss politics and the state. The poem is Cliffton's longest work in support of England, and though the verse is at times sophisticated, its subject matter is considered "the coarse material of Jacobism." Jay's Treaty, signed in 1794, regulated commerce and navigation between the United States and Great Britain. |
| 1800 | Poems, Chiefly Occasional. A collection of verse published in New York a year after the author's death. John Dickinson, writing for The Dictionary of American Biography, claims that Cliffton "had perhaps more feeling, more quality than any other American writers of his day save Freneau." |
