Details

Other Title:

First line: Oh for a muse of fire! to mount the skies.
Ode for the Fourth of July 1788.

Fingerprint:

."e, y:y! ."d, n:n; (S) 1788 (Q)

Subjects:

Fourth of July -- Poetry.
Fourth of July -- Songs and music.
Fourth of July.
Patriotic poetry.

Form/Genre:

Songs and music.
Poetry.
Broadside poems -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1788.
National songs.
Odes -- 1788.
Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.
Songs.
Music.

Place of Publication:

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Notes:

Song in five stanzas; first line: Oh for a muse of fire! to mount the skies. - For attribution to Francis Hopkinson, see Hastings, G.F. The life and works of Francis Hopkinson, 1926, p. 407-408.
Imprint at lower left, outside ornamental border. Presumably Evans 21151, for which no copy is located.
Broadside.

Local notes:

Culture Class Collection copy acquired in 1903 as part of the Benjamin Franklin Papers.
Culture Class Collection copy does not include imprint information.

Penn Provenance:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (former owner)

Penn Chronology:

1788

Cited in:

Evans, 21151
Evans, 21346
Hastings, G.E. Hopkinson, p. 407-408
ESTC, W8918
Wolf, E. Library of Benjamin Franklin, 1693

Contributor:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, printer.
Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

22859921