Phillip Morin Freneau

A detailed Summary of Phillip Morin Freneau

The life of Phillip Morin Freneau. The hardships that he had to go through throughout his life. The type of essays and poetry he wrote. Where he began the interest of public writing and how he got that interest.

Freneau was born in 1752, as a child Freneau had no idea that he was going to be a poet and a satirist. He went to an ordinary school and by the time he was about to go to college he had decided that he wanted to go in to the ministry. Going to college for Freneau was a huge accomplishment for him and his family. He had fulfilled the dream of his wine merchant father, Pierre Fresneau.(Encarta 97 1)

Freneau was extremely well versed in the classics in his old school Monmouth County under the tutelage of William Tennent. Freneau entered Princeton as a sophomore in 1768; he was the class of 1771. Unfortunately, this joyous occasion was short lived due to his father's financial losses and death. In spite of those hardships Freneau's Scottish mother had very high hopes and believed that her oldest of the five children would graduate college and join the clergy. Freneau realized that he a lot resting on him his mother and his

Younger brothers and sisters so he gave 110% on his studies.

John Witherspoon, a moderate Calvinis

ired the Reverend John Livington's essays dealing with the "inestimable value of liberty."(Encyclopedia of American Literature)

You now have some idea on Freneau's college years at Princeton; the rest of the paper will about Freneau's years after college what he accomplishment. The reason I have spent so much time on the Freneau's college years in because without that you would have no idea where all of his ideas came from, and how he first became such a great writer.

Inspired my Livingston's views, Freneau, together with his friends James Madison, Hugh Henry Brackenrigde, and William Bradford formed the "American Whig Society". Its purpose was to rival the Tory Cliosophic Society.

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Finally in 1790, at the age of thirty-eight Freneau decided that it was time to settle down. He married Eleanor Forman. However politics called again Madison and Jefferson persuaded him to set up his own newspaper in Philadelphia. Freneau called it The National Gazette. He worked on this for another decade, which meant another 10 years of feverish public action. He withdrew from politics again in 1801, when Jefferson was elected president. He retired to his farm and returend occasionally to sea. During his last thirty years he worked on poems and wrote poems attacking the greed and selfishness of corrupt politicians. To earn money he sold small pieces of his land. Finally in the last few years of his life he wrote two poems which were founded the "best poems of his life" The Indian Burying Ground" and The Wild Honey Suckle, a beautiful lyric which established him as an important American Precursor of the Romantics.

For Freneau, cultural independence meant the creation of a new kind of artist and a new literature. He was a democratic artist who was both an ordinary member of society and a spokesman for it; and an American literature that focused on native materials and had an independent aesthetic one that could give expression to the ideals of the republic. In a short summary when Freneau began writing he envisioned no less than the creation of a literary New Jerusalem in America.

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