Joseph Green (poet)

Joseph Green (1706 – December 11, 1780) was an American clergyman and poet who published The Disappointed Cooper in 1743, mocking an old man's marriage to a much younger woman as well as criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers.

[3] Joseph Green's satirical poetry[4] includes "To Mr. B Occasioned by His Verse" and "To Mr. Smibert on Seeing His Pictures".

He also wrote "The Poet's Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us'd to call his Muse", "On Mr. B—s's singing an Hymn of his own composing", "To the Author of the Poetry in the last Weekly Journal", "A True Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of Orange's Nuptials at Portsmouth", "Inscription under Revd.

[3] Green was one of the members who signed the attestation of veracity regarding Phillis Wheatley's authorship of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

[5] A Loyalist, Green fled from North America to England during the American Revolution and was named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778.