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<i>The Airs of Palestine</i>

The Airs of Palestine

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The Airs of Palestine is a poem by John Pierpont (1785–1866), first published in 1816 (Baltimore: B. Edes; various reprints). It is probably the most famous of his poems, and provided the title for his book Airs of Palestine and Other Poems (Boston: Munroe, 1840).

The poem was a huge success; sale of its copyright funded Pierpont's Harvard Divinity School education and inspired his closest friend and former business partner John Neal to experiment with writing as a means of funding his law education in Baltimore.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lease 1972, p. 15.

References

  • Lease, Benjamin (1972), That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-46969-7


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