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• Used mainly heroic couplet (2 lines in iambic pentameter)

■    Used blank verse (iambic pentameter but without rhymes)

■    developed 1 formulaic genre: visionary/the rising glory poem - celebrated the rising glory of their country. It was important for patriotic self-definition of new nation. The early model for this type of genre was prophecy of Angel Michael in Paradise lost.

tlOEL BARLOW was an American poet. diplomat and Dolitician.¹^ In his own time, Barlow was well-known for the epic Visiort of Columbus. Modern readers may be morę familiar with "The Hasty Pudding" (1793). He also drafted the Treaty of Tripoli. which includes the phrase: "the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".

"The Columbiad" - only international commerce can save world from wars.

■ 18^th century brought about mainly African-American poetry

African-American writers:

Jupiter Hammon - wrote in simple English; used hymn meter; his texts served as a slave songs.

Phillis Wheatley - used heroic couplet; wrote about position of blacks

Both paid respect to their white patterns.

"On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley