Trumbull, John 1750-1831

Overview

Works:	145 works in 679 publications in 2 languages and 12,337 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry History Anecdotes Portraits Humor Paraphrases
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 ( )

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 Trumbull ( )
Smith Collection, Supplement by Elizabeth M Smith ( )
John Adams letters by John Adams ( )
Records of the treasurer, Yale University by Yale University ( )
The influence of John Milton on the Connecticut wits by Kenneth John Horton ( Book )
John Trumbull papers by John Trumbull ( )
[Commonplace book] by R. B Thompson ( )
John Adams and John Trumbull in the "Boston Cycle." by Lennox Grey ( Book )
John Trumbull as revolutionist by Alexander Cowie ( Book )
Thomas Jefferson's art collection : "The Sortie from Gibraltar," engraving by de Poggi after 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 )
185 editions published between 1782 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,155 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 )
39 editions published between 1820 and 1996 in English and French and held by 861 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal : an epic poem by John Trumbull ( Book )
26 editions published between 1787 and 1984 in English and held by 654 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

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 572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Satiric poems: The progress of dulness and M'Fingal by John Trumbull ( Book )
9 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in English and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal a modern epic poem. : Canto first, or The town meeting by John Trumbull ( )
29 editions published between 1775 and 1984 in English and held by 501 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 ( )
14 editions published between 1771 and 1915 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal an epic poem. In four cantos. By John Trumbull, Esq. [Two lines of text in Latin] by John Trumbull ( )
23 editions published between 1787 and 1791 in English and held by 310 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 ( )
19 editions published between 1772 and 1773 in English and held by 272 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 )
13 editions published between 1770 and 1978 in English and held by 251 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 ( )
14 editions published between 1775 and 2005 in English and held by 248 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 216 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 between 1785 and 2005 in English and held by 205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys by David Humphreys ( )
7 editions published in 1790 in English and held by 199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David by Isaac Watts ( )
7 editions published in 1785 in English and held by 170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

McFingal a modern epic poem. Or, the town-meeting by John Trumbull ( )
7 editions published in 1776 in English and held by 149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The anarchiad a New England poem ( )
5 editions published between 1861 and 1862 in English and held by 148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American poems, selected and original vol. I by Timothy Dwight ( Book )
2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41$. West longitude 72$:30' ; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind by John Trumbull ( )
2 editions published in 1773 in English and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M'Fingal, or, The Tory's day of judgment a modern epic poem in four cantos by John Trumbull ( Book )
4 editions published in 1816 in English and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Audience level: 0.78 (from 0.00 for The poetic ... to 1.00 for The Fossar ...)

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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, Bible.--Psalms Colonies Connecticut Connecticut--New Haven Debts, External Drowning Drowning victims Dwight, Timothy, Education, Higher Elegiac poetry English literature English poetry Epic poetry, English European literature Festivals Gage, Thomas, General education Great Britain Humphreys, David, Hymns, English Intellectual life Larkin, Ebenezer, Literature Literature, Modern Literature--Theory, etc Lossing, Benson John, New England Ontario--Toronto Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Paper money Political satire, American Political science Psalmody Putnam, Israel, Religions Shays' Rebellion (1786-1787) Smolenskin, Perez, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron, Trumbull, John, United States United States.--Army Women--Education

Alternative Names

Celebrated author of Mc. Fingal 1750-1831

Mc. Fingal, Celebrated author of 1750-1831

Languages

English (501)
French (1)