Parke, John

Parke, John( 1754–89),
Delaware soldier in the Continental army, was known for his anonymous book The Lyric Works of Horace … to Which Are Added, a Number of Original Poems … (1786). His Horatian translations are adapted to American history by such substitutions as Washington for Augustus. The original verses are in the neoclassical manner, and include, in addition to some poems by other hands, his pastoral drama Virginia and a life of Horace.