Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Delaware River” in chapter 1.10 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
...known of the purely humorous ballads is Francis Hopkinson's (1778), which tells of the alarm felt by the British over some kegs that the Americans had charged with powder and had set floating in the Delaware River .
The hundreds of patriotic ballads, songs, and odes that appeared after the Revolution, though more ambitious and literary, seem less spontaneous and sincere than the earlier verse, which called...
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