Trumbull, John 1750-1831

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Works:	167 works in 728 publications in 2 languages and 11,986 library holdings
Genres:	History Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Anecdotes Portraits Paraphrases Humor
Roles:	Illustrator
Classifications:	Z1215, 811.2

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Publications about John Trumbull

Publications by John Trumbull

Publications by John Trumbull, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about John Trumbull

John Trumbull by Victor E Gimmestad ( Book )
The Connecticut wits by Leon Howard ( Book )
John Trumbull, Connecticut wit by Alexander Cowie ( Book )
M'Fingal a modern epic poem, in four cantos. by John Trumbull ( )
M'Fingal a modern epic poem, in four cantos. By John Trumbull, Esq. Embellished with nine copper plates; designed and engraved by E. Tisdale by John Trumbull ( )

Death chosen rather than life: or, The upright happy in death. a sermon, preached in Watertown, December 14, 1787. At the funeral of the Rev. John Trumbull, senior Pastor of the church in Westbury, who departed this life December 13th, 1787. In the 73d year of his age, and 48th of his ministry. by Simon Waterman ( Book )
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism ( Book )
The Fossard collection of drawings attributed to John Trumbull by John Hill Morgan ( Book )
The Connecticut Wits Barlow, Trumbull, Dwight by Jayne K Kribbs ( Recording )
A tentative "short-title" check-list of the works of Col. John Trumbull by Theodore Sizer ( Book )
The poetical works of John Trumbull, LL. D. : Containing M'Fingal, a modern epic poem, revised and corrected, with copious explanatory notes; The progress of dulness; and a collection of poems on various subjects, written before and during the Revolutionary War. : In two volumes. Vol. I[-II] by John Trumbull ( Book )
John Adams letters by John Adams ( )
John Trumbull as revolutionist by Alexander Cowie ( Book )
John Trumbull ( )
The influence of John Milton on the Connecticut wits by Kenneth John Horton ( Book )
Records of the treasurer, Yale University by Yale University ( )
Papers of John Trumbull by John Trumbull ( Book )
Thomas Jefferson papers by Thomas Jefferson ( )
[Commonplace book] by R. B Thompson ( )
John Trumbull papers by John Trumbull ( )

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Most widely held works by John Trumbull

M'Fingal a modern epic poem, in four cantos. by John Trumbull ( Book )
198 editions published between 1782 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes references to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass. (p. 54-56)

The poetical works of John Trumbull, LL. D. Containing M'Fingal, a modern epic poem, revised and corrected, with copious explanatory notes; The progress of dulness; and a collection of poems on various subjects by John Trumbull ( Book )
23 editions published between 1820 and 1972 in English and held by 589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless by John Trumbull ( )
35 editions published between 1794 and 1801 in English and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal : an epic poem by John Trumbull ( Book )
25 editions published between 1857 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Of all the literary productions of that day, having for its theme the character and doings of the men and times of the Revolution, the remarkable epic entitled M'Fingal is confessedly most deserving of immortality. For the manners of the poem, there is no record of the period which supplies so vivid a presentation of the old Revolutionary Whig habits of thinking and acting. - Introduction

Satiric poems: The progress of dulness and M'Fingal by John Trumbull ( Book )
7 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in English and held by 491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal a modern epic poem by John Trumbull ( Book )
28 editions published between 1775 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An essay on the use and advantages of the fine arts. Delivered at the public commencement, in New-Haven. September 12th. 1770 by John Trumbull ( Book )
12 editions published in 1770 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless shewing what his father and mother said of him ; how he went to college, and what he learned there ; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school ; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig ; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. : Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text] by John Trumbull ( )
13 editions published between 1772 and 1773 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Observations on the peculiar case of the Whig merchants, indebted to Great Britain at the commencement of the late war to which is prefixed an address of the Honorable the Congress to their fellow-citizens, on the important subjects of national faith, justice and honour, in September, 1779 by Nathaniel Hazard ( )
10 editions published in 1785 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poetical works by John Trumbull ( Book )
8 editions published between 1968 and 1996 in English and French and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An elegy on the times first printed at Boston, September 20th, A.D. 1774 by John Trumbull ( )
11 editions published between 1774 and 1775 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A new proclamation! By Thomas Gage, whom British frenzy stil'd honourable and excellency, o'er Massachusett's sent to stand here vice-admiral and chief commander by John Trumbull ( )
12 editions published between 1775 and 2005 in English and held by 205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An elegy on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, tutor of Yale College who was drowned in his passage from New Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771 by John Trumbull ( )
4 editions published in 1915 in English and held by 197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

McFingal a modern epic poem. Or, the town-meeting by John Trumbull ( )
21 editions published between 1776 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal a modern epic poem. : Canto first, or The town meeting by John Trumbull ( )
10 editions published between 1775 and 1776 in English and held by 185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys by David Humphreys ( )
7 editions published in 1790 in English and held by 170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David by Isaac Watts ( )
8 editions published in 1785 in English and held by 157 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American poems, selected and original vol. I by Landmark Anthologies ( Book )
2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The anarchiad a New England poem ( )
5 editions published between 1861 and 1862 in English and held by 126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal a modern epic poem, in four cantos. By John Trumbull, Esq. With explanatory notes. [Nine lines in Latin from Horace] by John Trumbull ( )
4 editions published in 1799 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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American literature American poetry American poetry--Colonial period American poetry--Revolutionary period (United States) American Revolution (1775-1783) Art Arts Barlow, Joel, Beecher, Catharine Esther, Bible.--Psalms Colonies Colonies--Commerce Connecticut Debts, External Drowning Dwight, Timothy, Education, Higher English poetry Epic poetry, English Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín, Festivals Funeral sermons Gage, Thomas, General education Gilpin, William, Great Britain Humphreys, David, Hymns, English Intellectual life Kivi, Aleksis, Larkin, Ebenezer, Lossing, Benson John, New England Ontario--Toronto Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Paper money Political satire, American Political science Psalmody Putnam, Israel, Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, Shays' Rebellion (1786-1787) Smolenskin, Perez, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron, Trollope, Frances Milton, Trumbull, John, Trumbull, John, United States Webster, Noah, Women--Education

Alternative Names

Celebrated author of Mc. Fingal, 1750-1831

Mc. Fingal, Celebrated author of, 1750-1831

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English (479)
French (1)