John Pierpont

John Pierpont (1785 - 1860), poet, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, was first a lawyer, then a merchant, and lastly a Unitarian minister. His chief poem is The Airs of Palestine.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.

External links and references

• The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project
• The Tocsin, a broadsheet poem by John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project