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William Cliffton (1771 – December 1799) was a Philadelphian poet and pamphleteer. He is the only identified member of the Anchor Club. He is considered part of the "transitive state" of American poetry.
Born the son of a wealthy Quaker, Cliffton suffered form a blood clot at the age of nineteen, and from then until his death, aged twenty-seven, pursued an almost exclusively literary life, though he took an interest in field sports.
Cliffton was a supporter of William Cobbett. He died in December 1799 from consumption.




Works


A Poetical Rhapsody of the Times.. (as Dick Retort) (1796)
A Flight of Fancy (1800)




References


L. A. Bressler (1951). William Cliffton: Philadelphia Poet, 1771-1799: A Critical and Biographical Essay and a Collection of His Writings. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

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