Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow
Joel Barlow
Lahir	(1754-03-24)24 Maret 1754 Redding, Koloni Connecticut
Meninggal	26 Desember 1812(1812-12-26) (umur 58) Żarnowiec, Kekaisaran Austria (kini Polandia)
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	penyair, pebisnis, diplomat, politikus
Karya terkenal	The Hasty Pudding (1793)

Joel Barlow (24 Maret 1754 – 26 Desember 1812) adalah seorang penyair, diplomat, dan politikus asal Amerika Serikat.^[1] Ia merupakan pendukung revolusi Prancis dan demokrasi Jefferson.

Pada masanya, Barlow dikenal karena menulis Vision of Columbus,^[2] walaupun pembaca modern lebih mengenali karyanya yang berjudul The Hasty-Pudding (1793). Ia juga membantu merumuskan Traktat Tripoli pada tahun 1796, yang mengandung kalimat kontroversial "pemerintah Amerika Serikat tidak dilandaskan pada agama Kristen..."^[3]

Catatan kaki

1. Modern biographies are James Woodress, A Yankee's Odyssey:the life of Joel Barlow, 1958, and Samuel Bernstein, Joel Barlow: A Connecticut Yankee in an age of revolution, 1985; an essay on Barlow's ruminations on the planetary hydrological cycle is part of Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory 1995:245ff.
2. Brian Pelanda, Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787 58 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 431, 442-448 (2011).
3. Boston, Rob, "Joel Barlow And The Treaty With Tripoli: A Tangled Tale Of Pirates, A Poet And The True Meaning Of The First Amendment", Church & State, Volume 50, No. 6, June 1997, hal 11–14.

Pranala luar

• Karya Joel Barlow di Project Gutenberg
• The Conspiracy of Kings; A Poem: Addressed to the Inhabitants of Europe, from Another Quarter of the World (London, 1792) online PDF edition.
• Guide to Joel Barlow's works at Houghton Library Diarsipkan 2011-11-21 di Wayback Machine., Harvard University