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McFingal

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McFingal
A Modern Epic Poem. Or, The Town-Meeting
by John Trumbull
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Mock-heroic, satire
PublisherWilliam and Thomas Bradford
Publication date1775
Media typePrint
OCLC690377493

McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town-meeting is a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull.[1][2]

This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Thomas Gage's Proclamation and was published in the Connecticut Courant on 7 and 14 August 1775; it portrays a Scottish Loyalist, McFingal, and his Whig opponent, Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams. This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a fourth canto published in 1782.

1st edition

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  • Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London coffee-house. 1775.

References

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  1. Trumbull, John (1776). McFingal. OCLC 690377493.
  2. "Poetry Wars". University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
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