Rebecca Hammond Lard
Deceased Person
1772 – 1855
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Who was Rebecca Hammond Lard?
Rebecca Hammond Lard, is called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early people in Indiana and the colonists in Vermont. Lard's works are mainly religious and meditative in tone, but draw their inspiration in part from the Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil. She is best known for Indiana's first book of poetry,On the Banks of the Ohio, a poem she is believed to have written.
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