The Airs of Palestine
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[edit]
- ^ Lease 1972, p. 15.
References[edit]
- 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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