McFingal
McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town-meeting is a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull.[1]
This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Thomas Gage's Proclamation, published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of August 1775; it portrays a Scottish Loyalist, McFingal, and his Whig opponent, Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams. This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a fourth canto was published in 1782.
1st edition
- Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London coffee-house. 1775.
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