Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
06.06.2026
Verlag
Waking Lion PressSeitenzahl
69 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1046 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781434113054
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 Barlow started during the Revolutionary War and expanded in the following years. First printed as The Columbiad in 1807, it's filled with Barlow's political views: he believed that the United States, as a haven of liberty, would demonstrate to other nations how to be free and prosperous. He also hoped that all peoples would learn to speak the same language and pursue knowledge, commerce, the arts, and peace.
Perfect for readers who appreciate grand historical narratives and classic American literature, this sweeping epic poem offers a unique poetic journey through the founding of the New World. Barlow's ambitious vision captures the spirit of American destiny while weaving together the stories of explorers, revolutionaries, and the birth of a nation in magnificent verse that stands as a testament to early American literary ambition.
The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)
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