Columbus, dying in prison, is visited by the angel Hesper, who unrolls before him the history of the New World: the Inca and Aztec empires, the colonies, the battles of the Revolution, and a prophecy of a united, enlightened human race. Barlow wrote it in heroic couplets and published it in 1807.
America’s most ambitious early national epic, a key document of revolutionary idealism. Download the free EPUB.