Discovery of the week: The Columbiad by Joel Barlow, the 1805 expanded version of his 1787 The Vision of Columbus. It's a dual epic of the life of Columbus and the War of the American Revolution, with the latter being depicted via a dream-vision of the navigator. I won't call it good, not based on the small bits I've read so far, but it is certainly glorious in its badness.
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---L.