The Columbiad
Автор:
Joel BarlowЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-06-02Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
80
Description
The Columbiad is an epic poem that celebrates America. It opens with Christopher Columbus in prison, despondent and feeling poorly rewarded for his great achievements. He is visited by Hesper, represented as the guardian genius of the lands to the west of Europe. He leads Columbus in a vision of the western hemisphere: its physical description, its native people, and the history of North and South America. They see the Aztec and Inca empires, the settling of America by Europeans, and the development of the British colonies up through the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States.
The poem had its origin in an earlier work, The Vision of Columbus, which ...
