Barlow

Joel, an American poet and politician. He was born at Reading, Connecticut, in 1755 and was graduated at Yale College during the Revolutionary War. Barlow was a young soldier, a wit, a chaplain, an editor, a lawyer, an agent for a land company, a merchant, an American consul at Algiers, and in 1811 minister plenipotentiary to France. While seeking an interview with Napoleon in Poland, he died in a village near Cracow, 1812. His name appears among the early writers of American verse, as the author of the Columbiad. He wrote also a number of humorous poems. The most noted is Hasty Pudding from which we quote a few lines: