An ode for the 4th of July 1788

Alternate Title:

Oh for a muse of fire! to mount the skies.

Contributor:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 (printer)

Name:

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791; Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Date:

1788

Language:

English

Provenance:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (former owner)

Publisher:

Printed by M. Carey

Relation:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.c1401

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; Broadside poems; National songs; odes; broadsides (notices); poems; songs (musical compositions); musical compositions

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 44 x 27 cm

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Mapcase AB7 H7777 788o

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)