Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Peter Folger” in chapter 1.10, page 151 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
... mother country, were versified merely for the sake of the jingle.
Altogether this descriptive and historical verse amounts to less than a thousand lines.
A Looking Glass for the Times (1677), by Peter Folger of Nantucket, derives interest from the fact that it was written by the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin.
Its four hundred lines in ballad quatrains are very bad verse, however, and, thoug...
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