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The Columbiad: A Poem

by Joel Barlow

1809 · Poetry · History

Open Library OL3119351W

The Columbiad: A Poem grew out of Barlow's earlier poem The Vision of Columbus. Intended as a national epic for the United States, it was popular with the reading public and compared with Homer, Virgil and Milton.

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