Poet, Journalist. The first professional American journalist, he was a powerful propagandist and satirist for the American Revolution and for Jeffersonian democracy. He incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic spirit combined with an inflexible temper. Buried on a lot on Poet Road in Matawan, New Jersey. His grave states, "poets grave," and his inscription says, "Heaven lifts its everlasting portal high and bids the pure in heart behold their God."
Poet, Journalist. The first professional American journalist, he was a powerful propagandist and satirist for the American Revolution and for Jeffersonian democracy. He incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic spirit combined with an inflexible temper. Buried on a lot on Poet Road in Matawan, New Jersey. His grave states, "poets grave," and his inscription says, "Heaven lifts its everlasting portal high and bids the pure in heart behold their God."
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Inscription
FRENEAU
PHILIP MORIN
Died Dec. 18, 1832
a poet
aged 80 years, 11 months, 16 days;
He was a native of New York but for many years
a resident of Philadelphia and New Jersey
His upright and benevolent character
is in the memory of many and will remain
when this inscription is no longer legible.
Heaven lifts its everlasting portal high,
and bids the pure in heart
behold their God.
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