TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books Y1 - 1787 A1 - Joel Barlow Esquire (1754-1812) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A poem with millennial themes. Although most of the poem is concerned with the history of the Americas to date, it includes several visions of a future of universal peace and prosperity based on the flourishing of the arts and the sway of reason and science. Book IX (237-58) concludes the poem with a vision of the entire Earth, speaking one language and with all nations working together to form a world council to bring the world into harmony. This served as the basis for his better known The Columbiad A Poem. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore, 1807.

PB - Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin CY - Hartford, CT N1 -

2nd ed. Hartford, CT: Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 5th ed. corrected as The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. To Which is Added, The Conspiracy of Kings: A Poem, By the Same Author (Paris: Ptd. at the English Press, 1793), 1-275.

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