Jonathan Odell: Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution
Duke University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. xiv+ 205 pp. with index, bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. A work that recreates the little-understood yet fascinating world of the Loyalists in the American Revolution seen through the life of poet, essayist, man letters and devoted Loyalist Jonathan Odell. One of the best educated of the American colonists, a physician turned Anglican minister, Odell offers us rare insight into the Revolution through his articulation of Loyalist ideology. He was aided by powerful friends such as William Howe, Henry Clinton and Guy Tarleton but eventually went into exile in Canada. Fine / fine. Item #E17662B
ISBN: 9780822307167
Price: $11.95