Philip Freneau
People note American poet Philip Morin Freneau for his satirical attacks on the British and for
The British Prison-Ship
, an account in 1781 of his wartime capture and imprisonment. People sometimes called this nationalist, also known as Federalist, polemicist, sea captain, and newspaper editor the "poet of the American Revolution."
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“If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”
Philip Freneau