March 24: Joel Barlow, The Popular Poet Who Died A Distant Death

March 24: Joel Barlow, The Popular Poet Who Died A Distant Death

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mar-24-TodayinCTHist-Barlow.mp3   Joel Barlow, American poet and one of Connecticut’s most ambitious — albeit not always successful — learned men of the late-18th century, was born today in 1754 in the western Connecticut town of Redding. As a member of the Yale class of 1778, the bright young man found himself surrounded by an impressive crowd of scholars who would each make their mark on …